03859cam a2200361 4500 599262038 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781400190331 1400190339 658cacfb-be7f-46f8-8ecc-8cb022aa9918 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 213268 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ferguson, Niall. The Ascent of Money [Libby] : A Financial History of the World. Tantor Media, Inc., 2008. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 315MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 315MB. History. Bread, cash, dough, loot, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: 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 labor. 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. Through Ferguson's 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 world's 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? What's 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 can't provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He also 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 world's biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generation-an economic transformation unprecedented in human history. Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts-sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers; and sooner or later greed flips into fear. And that is why, whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's never been a better time to understand the ascent of money. Business. Nonfiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Audie Award Nominee. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. Prebble, Simon. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1219-1/213268-TheAscentOfMoney.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1219-1/213268-TheAscentOfMoney.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=658CACFB-BE7F-46F8-8ECC-8CB022AA9918&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1219-1/213268-TheAscentOfMoney.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1219-1/213268-TheAscentOfMoney.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=658CACFB-BE7F-46F8-8ECC-8CB022AA9918&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)