Niall Ferguson is Herzog Professor of Financial History at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His books for Penguin include The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World and War of the World.
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. 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 labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential back-story behind all history.
The Ascent of Money charts the evolution of credit and debt as important as any technological innovation in the rise of civilization, from ancient Babylon to the silver mines of Bolivia. Banks provided the material basis for the splendours of the Italian Renaissance, while the bond market was the decisive factor in conflicts from the Seven Years’ War to the American Civil War.
With the clarity and verve for which he is famed, Niall Ferguson explains why the origins of the French Revolution lie in a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scots murderer. He shows in The Ascent of Money how financial failure turned Argentina from the world’s sixth richest country into an inflation-ridden basket case – and how a financial revolution is propelling the world’s most populous country from poverty to power in a single generation.
Yet the most important lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts – sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers – sooner or later greed flips into fear. And that’s why, whether you’re scraping by or rolling in it, there’s never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.
Niall Ferguson talks about The War of the World, his previous book, here.
Visit Niall Ferguson's minisite: http://www.niallferguson.com
Niall Ferguson's other books include: Colossus, Empire, The House of Rothschild, The Cash Nexus, The Pity of War
The book has a twin UK documentary series called "Ascent of Money". Later, PBS produced a shortened version of the documentary that can be access online for free. (The link is at the bottom of this page.) Both films are very illuminating and educational, th...
评分看到好多人对翻译问题横加指责。我觉得有失公允 确实有漏译和翻译的错误 但是本书翻译的亮点也有不少, 比如p163,“弱不禁火”翻译的就很好,原文为vulnable to fire,至少我觉得翻译的非常到位。 书没什么好评价的。只想说说本书主题之外的东西。 1850年德国就有了福利国家...
评分一遍已经翻完了。 douban 里看到一些差评,理解很多书被一些非常不专业的英语专业的学生搞坏了。当时这本书还值得一读 *这本书有点集大成者的风范,它告诉你一些历史,作者的解读只是一种引导,你完全可以有自己的理解。 *如果你不是看趣闻轶事一样的看这本...
评分原版的确实比较难啃,花了两个月时间才读完。好在回报不小: 对于一个许久以来困惑我的问题给了一点启示,问题是“为什么在政治经济危机爆发前的大多数人都没有意识到?” 现在我得到的一个可能答案是:大多数人缺乏危机意识,更别谈理性分析关键问题的能力了。针对这个我采...
评分一遍已经翻完了。 douban 里看到一些差评,理解很多书被一些非常不专业的英语专业的学生搞坏了。当时这本书还值得一读 *这本书有点集大成者的风范,它告诉你一些历史,作者的解读只是一种引导,你完全可以有自己的理解。 *如果你不是看趣闻轶事一样的看这本...
看的第三本鸟叔。还是一如既往的流畅。
评分wow, what a book!
评分看的第三本鸟叔。还是一如既往的流畅。
评分这么一本流水帐毫无原创观点,作家好意思称自己是历史学家吗
评分金融入门非常棒。虽然花边新闻多到离谱,本人明星化倾向严重,二手拼凑资料多,原创性少,但文笔确实好,让人读那么闷的东西却能保持兴致,真不简单。基本概念和宏大历史叙事均有兼顾,入门佳作。
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