01896cam a22002895a 4500 8660877 20160213152304.0 090214r2009 nyua frb 001 0 eng d 9780143116172 (pbk.) BTCTA eng BTCTA EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE 332.49 FER 22 Ferguson, Niall. 36876 The ascent of money : a financial history of the world / Niall Ferguson. New York : Penguin Books, 2009. v, 442 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Index : p. 405-442. Bibliography : p. 368-402. 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. 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. Finance History BUEsh 36877 Economic history. BUEsh 36878 Economics History. BUEsh Money History. BUEsh 36879 International finance History. BUEsh 36880 BUEsh BUSADM July2015 February2016 BestSellers ddc 332.49 FER 20172 20144 0 0 ddc 0 0 Baccah MAIN MAIN 1ST 2015-07-05 Purchase 131.00 22696 0 332.49 FER 000039427 2025-07-15 00:00:00 164.00 BB