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Books : The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World |
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List Price: $24.99Amazon.com's Price: $19.59 You Save: $5.40 (22%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: MP3 CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.09
EAN: 9781400160334
Format: Audiobook, CD, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN: 1400160332
Label: Tantor Media
Manufacturer: Tantor Media
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: December 01, 2008
Publisher: Tantor Media
Sales Rank: 260323
Studio: Tantor Media
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Product Description:
Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - How things *really* work...
Have you ever wondered how banking started? How the South really lost the war? What really happened last year on Wall Street? This book explains the real reason behind nearly every historical event for the past 800 years.
Rating:  - Don't get your history and analysis from a Wall Street apologist
There are many, many excellent books addressing the current economic crisis, the utter failure of deregulation, the outrageous excesses, looting and crimes of Wall Street, the destruction of the middle class, the horrid debt burden left for our children, the fantastic increase in disparity between the haves and have-nots--in short, the destruction of the American way of life as we have known it.
Don't get your history and analysis from a right-wing apologist for Wall Street and the ultra ... Read More
Rating: - History of Dinero
We are all experts when it comes to money (or at least real estate), but none of us really knows much history. For if we knew the history of booms and busts, bonds and equities, risk and insurance then we may all be a little less likely to jump into the latest bubble, and a little more likely to question our own "expertise". I admire Ferguson for taking on a big topic, and for his willingness to provide a grand sweep of history that reflects and helps us understand our current recession. The book was ... Read More
Rating:  - If Harvard leadership amounts to this much we deserve it all and much more to come
Ferguson comes up again as an unabashed defender of empire(s), especially those espousing financial capitalism as modus operandi. So much so that he touches revisionist overtones at times.
Had this been just a history book, however partial, Ascent of Money would have been only half bad. However, Ferguson's ideological positions only add insult to the periodic injury produced by financial capitalism.
Staying with history for a while, the book makes for a quick traversal of modern ... Read More
Rating: - Should be titled "The Descent of Harvard"
In these hard times, we really could use an up-to-date, thoughtful reappraisal of the history of finance and the role it has played in advancing and periodically severely retarding economic and political development around the world.
Unfortunately this is not it.
Prof. Ferguson, who divides his time between Harvard and Oxford, has become the "James Michener" of world history. He writes effusively on everything from "Britain's contributions to civilization" and "warfare in the 20th ... Read More
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