02049cam a22003015a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025020002500066040004200091082002000133100002800153245007900181260003800260300003200298500002400330504003100354520094000385650003501325650003601360650003101396650003401427650005001461651001001511653004801521942002001569999001701589952014101606866087720160213152304.0090214r2009    nyua   frb    001 0 eng d  a9780143116172 (pbk.)  aBTCTAbengcBTCTAdEG-ScBUEdEG-ScBUE04a332.49bFER2221 aFerguson, Niall.93687614aThe ascent of money :ba financial history of the world /cNiall Ferguson.  aNew York :bPenguin Books,c2009.  av, 442 p. :bill. ;c22 cm.  aIndex : p. 405-442.  aBibliography : p. 368-402.  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. 7aFinancexHistory2BUEsh936877 7aEconomic history.2BUEsh936878 0aEconomicsxHistory.2BUEsh 7aMoneyxHistory.2BUEsh936879 0aInternational financexHistory.2BUEsh936880  2BUEsh  bBUSADMcJuly2015cFebruary2016dBestSellers  2ddck332.49 FER  c20172d20144  00102ddc40708BaccahaMAINbMAINc1STd2015-07-05ePurchaseg131.00h22696l0o332.49 FERp000039427r2025-07-15 00:00:00v164.00yBB