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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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
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.
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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