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

Description: The Cash Nexus by Niall Ferguson This title answers 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. In keeping with the popular cliche, money is shown to be the force that lurks behind it all. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Generations of historians have shied away from the truth behind the cliche- money makes the world go around. In the same style and manner that made The Pity of War an international bestseller, Niall Ferguson answers the big questions about financeand its crucial place in bringing happiness and despair, warfare and welfare, boom and crash to nations buffeted by the onward march of history. Starting in 1700 and ending today, THE CASH NEXUS is a dazzling, powerful and controversial explanation of modern world history and the fundamental force that lurks behind it all. Notes A powerful and far-reaching explanation of modern world history, and the economic forces behind it, from 1700 to the present day. One of Allen Lanes most successful hardbacks of 2001, which trails Fergusons 2002 history series for Channel 4, The British Empire. Author Biography Niall Ferguson is one of Britains most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968- The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other 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). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards. Table of Contents Part 1 Spending and taxing: the rise and fall of the warfare state; "hateful taxes"; the Commons and the castle -representation and administration. Part 2 Promises to pay: mountains of the moon - public debts; the money printers - default and debasement; of interest. Part 3 Economic politics: dead weights and tax-eaters - the social history of finance; the myth of the feelgood factor; the Silverbridge syndrome - electoral economics. Part 4 Global power: masters and plankton - financial globalization; golden fetters, paper chains - international monetary regimes; the American wave - democracys flow and ebb; fractured unities; understretch - the limits of economic power; conclusion. Kirkus UK Review The idea that money makes the world go round is as popular as it is old. It is so commonly accepted as truth that few stop to consider it in any detail. Niall Ferguson, a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford and author of The Pity of War, has written a powerful book challenging this belief, through a historical analysis of the evolution of todays economic and political world. There is clearly a link between politics and money; throughout modern history the way states have managed their money has been crucial to their survival and success. The 18th-century discovery that governments could be permanently in debt thanks to bond issues and a central bank enabled wars and empire-building on a vast scale. But within economic theory there are quite different sets of assumptions about individual behaviour. Some theorists assume that individual expectations and actions are rational, drawing economically optimal conclusions from available information. Yet experimental research shows that most people are remarkably bad at assessing their own economic best interest, even when given clear information and time to learn. Faced with a simple economic dilemma, people are quite likely to make the wrong decision due to misleading preconceptions, emotions or basic computational mistakes. The conflicting human impulses of sex, violence and power are quite capable of overriding the money motive. This is not light reading, but it is a highly accessible and clear analysis of a complex subject that affects all our lives. Fergusons central conclusion is that money does not in fact make the world go round. Rather, modern history is the product of unpredictable political conflicts, above all wars, that have shaped the institutions of modern economic life. (Kirkus UK) Details ISBN0140293337 Author Niall Ferguson Pages 576 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Year 2002 ISBN-10 0140293337 ISBN-13 9780140293333 Format Paperback Publication Date 2002-04-04 Imprint Penguin Books Ltd Subtitle Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 332.49 Illustrations illustrations Birth 1964 Media Book Short Title CASH NEXUS Residence ENK UK Release Date 2002-04-04 Alternative 9780141976419 Audience General NZ Release Date 2002-04-03 AU Release Date 2002-04-03 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:1081932;

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