The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - Hardcover

Ferguson, Niall

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ISBN 10: 1594201927 ISBN 13: 9781594201929

Verlag: Penguin Pr, 2008

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Chronicles the human drama behind the evolution of finance from its origins in Mesopotamia to the modern world's most recent upheavals, in an account that covers such topics as the stock market bubble that prompted the French Revolution, the theories behind common investment vehicles, and the reasons why the free market is failing to protect Hurricane Katrina victims. 75,000 first printing.

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Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, and Colossus, he also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines all over the world. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for British television: Empire, American Colossus, and, most recently, The War of the World.

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• Verlag: Penguin Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594201927
• ISBN 13: 9781594201929
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 441