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His most recent book is The Square and the Tower: Networks on Power from the Freemasons to Facebook (2018).

Ferguson is a recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service as well as other honors. Civilization was also made into a documentary series. 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.įerguson'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. The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild won the Wadsworth Prize for Business History. 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. 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. Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, former Laurence A. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis.

#THE ASCENT OF MONEY FREE#

Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can’t provide adequate protection against catastrophe. The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson explores the development of financial systems - primarily European systems from about the year 1400 onward and the. What is money? What do banks do? What’s the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do? This is history for the present. With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What’s more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.

But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. To revolutionaries, it’s the chains of labor. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.