The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000

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2002
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Modern history shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, Niall Ferguson offers a bold and original analysis of the evolution of today's economic and political landscape. Far from being driven by the profit motive alone, our recent history, as Ferguson makes brilliantly clear, has also been made by potent and often conflicting human impulses - sex, violence and the desire for power. In this dazzling, powerful and controversial explanation of modern world history and the fundamental force that lurks behind it all, Niall Ferguson answers the big questions about finance and its crucial place in bringing happiness and despair, warfare and welfare, boom and crash to nations buffeted by the onward march of history. A marvellous combination of persuasion and provocation...The Cash Nexus has enough ideas for a dozen books. (Martin Daunton, History Today). The Cash Nexus is...packed with intriguing arguments and controversial propositions...[an] outstanding book. (Frank McLynn, Independent). Ferguson is one of the most technically accomplished historians writing today...The Cash Nexus offers an important corrective to the naive story of economic growth. (Robert Skidelsky, New York Review of Books).

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Modern history shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, Niall Ferguson offers a bold and original analysis of the evolution of today's economic and political landscape. Far from being driven by the profit motive alone, our recent history, as Ferguson makes brilliantly clear, has also been made by potent and often conflicting human impulses - sex, violence and the desire for power. In this dazzling, powerful and controversial explanation of modern world history and the fundamental force that lurks behind it all, Niall Ferguson answers the big questions about finance and its crucial place in bringing happiness and despair, warfare and welfare, boom and crash to nations buffeted by the onward march of history. "A marvellous combination of persuasion and provocation...The Cash Nexus has enough ideas for a dozen books." (Martin Daunton, History Today). "The Cash Nexus is...packed with intriguing arguments and controversial propositions...[an] outstanding book." (Frank McLynn, Independent). "Ferguson is one of the most technically accomplished historians writing today...The Cash Nexus offers an important corrective to the naive story of economic growth. " (Robert Skidelsky, New York Review of Books).

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 576
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 04 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0140293337
ISBN 13: 9780140293333

Author Bio

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior fellow of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His books include The House of Rothschild, Empire, The War of the World, The Ascent of Money, The Great Degeneration and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist. His many prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013).