The cash nexus : money and power in the modern world, 1700-2000
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The cash nexus : money and power in the modern world, 1700-2000
Penguin Books, 2001
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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.
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
- golder fetters, paper chains - international monetary regimes
- the American wave - demcoracy's flow and ebb
- fractured unities
- understretch - the limits of economic power
- conclusion.
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