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092			_a332.09 Fer 2009
100	1		_aFerguson, Niall.
245	1	4	_aThe ascent of money : _ba financial history of the world / _cNiall Ferguson.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2009, c2008.
300			_av, 442 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 368-402) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 1. Dreams of avarice -- 2. Of human bondage --3. Blowing bubbles -- 4. The return of risk -- 5. Safe as houses-- 6. From empire to Chimerica -- Afterword : The descent of money -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- List of illustrations --Index.
520			_aNiall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. Through Ferguson's expert lens, for example, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world's first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. Yet the central lesson of financial history is that, sooner or later, every bubble bursts.--From publisher description.
650		0	_aFinance _xHistory.
650		0	_aEconomic history.
650		0	_aEconomics _xHistory.
650		0	_aMoney _xHistory.
650		0	_aInternational finance _xHistory.
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