The Ascent of Money - A Financial History of the World

Bread, cash, dough, loot: call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it is the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it is the shackles of labour. But in The Ascent of Money, Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress... The most important lesson of financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts. And that's why, whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's never been a better time to understand the ascent of money...