TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferguson,Niall
TI  - The ascent of money: a financial history of the world 
SN  - 9781846141928 (pbk.)
U1  - 330.903 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Allen Lane
KW  - Finance
KW  - History
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economics
KW  - Money
KW  - International finance
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p.[363]-397) and index
N2  - Shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. This book reveals financial history as the essential back-story behind all history. It explains why the origins of the French Revolution lie in a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scots murderer
ER  -