A review by bub_9
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

2.0

Err, it's okay. The premise is very interesting, but I don't always think a successful job is done tracing any cultural, political, or social line through history and across geographies as the title seems to suggest it will aim to. Instead, it feels like a disparate set of (disappointingly earthbound - for example, do I really need more time on one Goldman CEO than Karl Marx, in a chapter about capital?) episodes (apparently it was based on a TV show? and it shows) that are nonetheless insightful, though definitely tending towards the jargonistic and with superficial explanations when they are provided (if at all).