The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Niall Ferguson with Simon Prebble (Narrator)

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced

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Bread, cash, dough, loot, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. 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 in The Ascent ...

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