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020			_a9780143116172 (pbk.)
040			_aBTCTA _beng _cBTCTA _dEG-ScBUE _dEG-ScBUE
082	0	4	_a332.49 _bFER _222
100	1		_aFerguson, Niall. _936876
245	1	4	_aThe ascent of money : _ba financial history of the world / _cNiall Ferguson.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2009.
300			_av, 442 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
500			_aIndex : p. 405-442.
504			_aBibliography : p. 368-402.
520			_aNiall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. 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 historian Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. Through Ferguson's expert lens, for example, 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. Yet the central lesson of financial history is that, sooner or later, every bubble bursts.--From publisher description.
650		7	_aFinance _xHistory _2BUEsh _936877
650		7	_aEconomic history. _2BUEsh _936878
650		0	_aEconomics _xHistory. _2BUEsh
650		7	_aMoney _xHistory. _2BUEsh _936879
650		0	_aInternational finance _xHistory. _2BUEsh _936880
651			_2BUEsh
653			_bBUSADM _cJuly2015 _cFebruary2016 _dBestSellers
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