Both the series and the book are immensely entertaining and readily accessible, but the latter arguably makes for a more convenient platform from which academics can approach Ferguson?s many insights. The book?s release coincided with an eponymous television series that has already been broadcast in much of the English-speaking world. In the Ascent of Money he harnesses his narrative skills to offer lay readership a captivating account of global monetary history from time immemorial to the twenty-first century. Harvard?s Niall Ferguson is perhaps best known for his magisterial history of the House of Rothschild and, more recently, his exhortation against the risks of unbridled government borrowing and nebulous stimulus packages ostensibly designed to avert what is often termed the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression. Reviewed for EH.NET by Niv Horesh, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World Author(s):
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