Niall Ferguson3.9030,047 ratings1,961 reviewsWant to ReadKindle $11.99Rate this book在全球信贷紧缩、金融行业出现危机的情况下，“货币”已成为全球最热门的词语之一。货币究竟怎样影响到我们今天的社会？本书作者从一个全新的角度描述了货币的历史，让你知道金融演化进程背后发生的事情。《货币崛起》中，我们随货币进行了一次穿越时间的旅行。从欧洲大陆流通的古罗马银币，到成为第一批银行家的意大利高利贷者；从五千年前流通的泥版“货币”，到今天银行外汇显示屏上闪烁的数字，在人类社会的进步中，金融常常是背后的推手。罗斯柴尔德家族为什么能在滑铁卢战役中大赚一笔？文艺复兴的深层推动力是什么？中国和美国如何开始成为共同体？《货币崛起》告诉我们，每个历史故事背后都有一条金融线索。透过弗格森的专业视角，许多为人熟知的历史事件被赋予新的意义，更清晰地成为金融史上的一座座里程碑，而金融的发展进程则构成一切历史背后最为本质的故事背景。在金融危机的时代，我们应该怎样看待金融这个虚拟市场？又怎样整顿自我，重新出发？本书给大家提供了一些历史的视角来理解今日的世界，无疑，它将是当前我们处在历史分歧点，站在人类文明一路走来的位置时，为我们提供的一部有用的指南。GenresHistoryEconomicsNonfictionFinanceBusinessMoneyPolitics ...more325 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 13, 2007
Book details & editions3313 people are currently reading47250 people want to readAbout the authorNiall Ferguson103 books3,238 followersFollowFollowNiall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and current senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and founder and managing director of advisory firm Greenmantle LLC. The author of 15 books, Ferguson is writing a life of Henry Kissinger, the first volume of which--Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist--was published in 2015 to critical acclaim. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History. Other titles include Civilization: The West and the Rest, The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die and High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg. Ferguson's six-part PBS television series, "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World," based on his best-seller, won an International Emmy for best documentary in 2009. Civilization was also made into a documentary series. Ferguson is a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service as well as other honors. His most recent book is The Square and the Tower: Networks on Power from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018).(Source: Amazon)