The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson

March 16, 2009

Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor at the Harvard Business School. He is author of several critically acclaimed books, including Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation, 1897-1927 (Cambridge University Press, 1995); The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (Basic Books, 1998); The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (Penguin, 1998); The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (Basic, 2001); Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Basic, 2003); Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Basic, 2004); and War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (Basic, 2006). A contributing editor of the Financial Times, Ferguson was named in 2004 by Time Magazine of one of the world's hundred most influential people.

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