The ascent of money: a financial history of the world

This is a work of extraordinary breadth of scholarship and penetrating judgments, and there is nothing that equals it. Ferguson (Harvard Univ.; Oxford Univ., UK) provides expansive coverage of rhe birth of debt, banking, bankruptcies, and people's repeated indulgence in them.

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Published inChoice Vol. 46; no. 8; p. 1557
Main Author Talele, C J
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Middletown American Library Association dba CHOICE 01.04.2009
Subjects
Economic history
Ferguson, Niall
Finance
Nonfiction
Social history
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Summary:This is a work of extraordinary breadth of scholarship and penetrating judgments, and there is nothing that equals it. Ferguson (Harvard Univ.; Oxford Univ., UK) provides expansive coverage of rhe birth of debt, banking, bankruptcies, and people's repeated indulgence in them.
ISSN:0009-4978
1943-5975