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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.
尼爾·弗格森,英國最著名的曆史學傢之一。哈佛大學曆史係教授、牛津大學高級研究員,同時也是斯坦福大學鬍佛研究所的高級研究員。他是極少數能橫跨學術界、金融界和媒體的專傢之一。著有《貨幣崛起》等多部暢銷書,同時還為多傢報紙和雜誌撰稿。此外,他還製作瞭四部非常成功的電視紀錄片:《帝國》、《美國巨人》、《世界戰爭》,以及最近的《貨幣崛起》。2004年被《時代》周刊評為“影響世界的100人”之一。
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評分非常的水,且渙散,且不知道他到底想乾嗎。。
評分係統的看看問題很有幫助,很多有趣的故事和觀點。但是按錢穆的觀點,就是此書缺乏史識,隻敘述不分析。而敘述也有點亂,可能因為本來就是電視劇的腳本,外加規模太過宏大,想說的問題太多。比如說概率那段,Bernstein寫瞭300多頁,他寫瞭3頁(在所難免)。另外作者替殖民主義說話這點看著有點不舒服,不過這個屬於個人喜好,和書無關。總而言之,還是很寓教於樂、文筆流暢的。
評分Reminds me of Franscisco's money speech.
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...
評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...
評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...
評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...
評分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...
The Ascent of Money pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024