尼尔·弗格森,英国最著名的历史学家之一。哈佛大学历史系教授、牛津大学高级研究员,同时也是斯坦福大学胡佛研究所的高级研究员。他是极少数能横跨学术界、金融界和媒体的专家之一。著有《货币崛起》等多部畅销书,同时还为多家报纸和杂志撰稿。此外,他还制作了四部非常成功的电视纪录片:《帝国》、《美国巨人》、《世界战争》,以及最近的《货币崛起》。2004年被《时代》周刊评为“影响世界的100人”之一。
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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.
It is true that the book is quite easy to understand. If one hasn't learn financial history, this book can give one some insights into it. The book is written in a fair logic while I don't think it presents higher understanding about real financial issues....
评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...
评分1,银行(信用)起源发展——美第奇家族,苏格兰的催债,美国的破产法保障借贷权力。 2,债券的起源发展——起源意大利,罗斯柴尔德家族在滑铁卢之战为英军筹集黄金,美国内战的南方“棉花债券”,债券与通胀的矛盾 3,股市泡沫——荷兰起源,密西西比泡沫,安然的庞氏骗局 4,...
评分中文版这书翻译成货币崛起,太正式了。 灵机一动,觉得可以翻成《金钱往上爬》,呵呵! 个人觉得还是他的the war of the world与virtual history比较好。Niall Ferguson真算得上是精力旺盛的畅销书作家了!
评分看到好多人对翻译问题横加指责。我觉得有失公允 确实有漏译和翻译的错误 但是本书翻译的亮点也有不少, 比如p163,“弱不禁火”翻译的就很好,原文为vulnable to fire,至少我觉得翻译的非常到位。 书没什么好评价的。只想说说本书主题之外的东西。 1850年德国就有了福利国家...
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评分比较全面的介绍了金融市场的形成。
评分很好的书,以前自己读历史的 时候就怎么也不明白为什么法国大革命就那么爆发了,和股票,保险的起源,这本书解决了我很久的困惑
评分必须是Trading必读的几本书之一
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