The Ascent of Money

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 now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of all human progress and the lifeblood of history.

From the cash injection that funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that sparked the French Revolution, from the bonds that fuelled Britain''s war effort to the Wall Street Crash and today''s meltdown, this is the story of boom and bust as it''s never been told before.

Whether you''re scraping by or rolling in it, there''s no better time to understand the ascent of money.

ISBN: 9780141035482
Published by: Penguin Book India