The Ascent of Money

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尼尔·弗格森,英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系教授、牛津大学高级研究员,同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有《货币崛起》等多部畅销书,同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外,他还制作了四部非常成功的电视纪录片:《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》,以及最近的《货币崛起》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。

出版者:Penguin Press
作者:Niall Ferguson
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页数:442
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出版时间:2008-11-13
价格:USD 29.95
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781594201929
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  • 金融 
  • 历史 
  • 经济 
  • Niall.Ferguson 
  • finance 
  • 经济学 
  • history 
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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 .

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, its the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, its the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money , Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. Whats more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.

Through Fergusons expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, 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 worlds first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer.

With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? Whats the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do?

This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market cant provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis.

Perhaps most important, The Ascent of Money documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the worlds biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generationan economic transformation unprecedented in human history.

Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble burstssooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And thats why, whether youre scraping by or rolling in it, theres never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.

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英文原版不错,虽然表达不一定太好理解,词汇量大,但内容很好,值得多花一点时间理解和琢磨。不过作者行文感觉有点儿散,想讲到blowing bubble的时候,开始说了John Law其人,但后来就引申到Dutch bank model方面的内容,后来又兜回来说John Law在Regent的帮助下推动了Banque ...  

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这是一本很成功的金融史教科书。各章依次介绍了银行、债券、股票、保险、房地产和跨国金融的发展历史。你会详细了解西班牙王室如何因白银而兴,又如何因白银而败;美地奇家族如何由银行业被推向巅峰;罗斯柴尔德如何从国债市场上掘去了金融帝国的第一桶金;对比世界上第一次股...  

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本书翻译真的蛮差的。 由人人影视翻译的英国记录片,不得不承认,人人影视的翻译水准高于本书译者,因此结合起来看看蛮有帮助。 具体问题可以看看第一篇评论。这本书真的蛮贵啊。 http://www.yyets.com/resource/10911  

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读的英文版,当个小说来读普及一下知识还可以,但要想从中提纯出思想性的东西,实话讲还是蛮少的。 一是太大而散,涉及了货币,债券,股票,房产,等等。但每一个部分只是讲了一些小故事,并没有什么中心主旨存在。 二是故事引用失当,很多小故事不明白他为什么要花篇幅去引...

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本书翻译真的蛮差的。 由人人影视翻译的英国记录片,不得不承认,人人影视的翻译水准高于本书译者,因此结合起来看看蛮有帮助。 具体问题可以看看第一篇评论。这本书真的蛮贵啊。 http://www.yyets.com/resource/10911  

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通過數種金融產品的出身鏈接起來,比較深入淺出地介紹了金融的歷史。但依然跳脫不出現有框架,把任何事的興衰成敗都和人性掛鉤。凡事皆人為,顧人性決凡事——這樣說等於沒說。人設計機制,但機制也設計人。

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结构散,走马观花。

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Reminds me of Franscisco's money speech.

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系统的看看问题很有帮助,很多有趣的故事和观点。但是按钱穆的观点,就是此书缺乏史识,只叙述不分析。而叙述也有点乱,可能因为本来就是电视剧的脚本,外加规模太过宏大,想说的问题太多。比如说概率那段,Bernstein写了300多页,他写了3页(在所难免)。另外作者替殖民主义说话这点看着有点不舒服,不过这个属于个人喜好,和书无关。总而言之,还是很寓教于乐、文笔流畅的。

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Out of all respect, Ferguson is more of a historian than an economist...he is good at introducing basic concepts yet failed to explain more complicated concepts, it is like telling people definition of an option in great detail and start talking in a way that assumes that you know what skew and kurtosis are

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