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The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000 ISBN: 0140293337 ISBN13: 9780140293333 The Cash Nexus: Money and Politics in Modern History, 1700-2000 By: Niall Ferguson Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Format: Paperback Our Price: 9.89 Discount: 34% RRP: 14.99

Generations of historians have shied away from the truth behind the clichà ©: 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 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. 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.


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 - democracy's flow and ebb
- fractured unities
- understretch - the limits of economic power
- conclusion.


Brief Description:

Generations of historians have shied away from the truth behind the clichà ©: money makes the world go around. This book 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.

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