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。
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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.
货币是什么?有人说“货币就是货币的职能”(MONEY IS WHAT MONEY DOES);有人说金本位可靠而信用本位不可靠;有的则说要建立超级主权大国的货币。。。。。。而《货币崛起》这本书则隐匿的告诉我们一个答案:货币是基于国家能力的信用竞争选择。而金本位只是依赖于黄金的稀缺,...
评分中文版这书翻译成货币崛起,太正式了。 灵机一动,觉得可以翻成《金钱往上爬》,呵呵! 个人觉得还是他的the war of the world与virtual history比较好。Niall Ferguson真算得上是精力旺盛的畅销书作家了!
评分英文原版不错,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 ...
评分阅读难度及建议:需要一定的货币金融学、宏观经济学基础知识,书中对货币乘数的作用机制、金融市场实务、金本位制度等有所涉及,有兴趣可参考米什金的《货币金融学》、克鲁格曼《国际金融学》,曼昆《宏观经济学》等专业教材 补充阅读:《金融的逻辑》、《金钱关系》 ...
评分作者挑选了自己觉得重要的事件,按话题来组织内容,分五章分别讨论了信用,债券,泡沫,住房,风险和Chimerica。本书并不是一般意义上系统的历史记录,所以副标题A Financial History of the World有些过大。前两章的很多材料都算得上是“新闻”,符合我对历史书的期待;后四章...
作者喜欢讲故事,可惜似乎技术层面的干货以及深入的分析很不够,最后竟然扯上了进化的概念……应该属于学术能力不强,但沟通能力还蛮强的典型吧……
评分故事讲的好,道理就懂了
评分多谢YX同学从OZ同学处捎来:)
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评分结构散,走马观花。
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