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Description: Food, cash, copper, silver, trench... no matter what you call it, money is still important. For each man, money has a different meaning. For Catholics, love for money is the source of all sins. For generals, money is the ability to raise war; For revolutionaries, it is the shackles of the labor class. But what's the real money? Is it a mountain of silver as the conquerors of Spain thought? Or just clay plates and printing papers? How do we live in a world where most money is invisible, no more courteous than the numbers on the computer screen? Where's the money coming from? And where did they go? Is the money as dirty as we're still prejudice? Despite all, the coin is crowned, and the throne of the coin is essential for the throne of man, bringing man from miserable life to the height of material prosperity. It can be said that money is the greatest invention of human economy so far. And to find out carefully, adequately about money is a completely not simple thing. Fortunately, most of these knowledge has been scientifically systemized by Niall Ferguson and presented in the book The Ascent of Money. Niall Ferguson wrote this book in the context of the 2008 economic crisis began to shake. Through historical events that are both glorious and dark, and famous characters are both creative and destructive in the financial world.; The book tells fascinating stories about the birth of currency and credit, bond and stock market, about insurance and real estate - the key elements of the financial foundation shaped society and global financial system - from ancient measles to the beginning of the 21st century, with the peaks, and the high-princesmities and the cost of education and the high school prices. The book shows how close the financial field, great impact, long-term us: financial markets are the mirror of humanity, revealing every day by hour about how we value ourselves and surrounding resources. Over ten years have passed with many clear changes such as the world politics or the appearance of high-tech encryption, but the author claims that an economic crisis sooner or later cycle will happen and will not be like any previous crisis. This edition of the book has been added by the author two new chapters with updated information, hoping that forecasts in which will be somewhat useful for readers. Reading this book you will understand why, it's paradoxical, those living in the safest country in the world are also the most insured people in the world. When will you find out and why English-speaking ethnic groups bring a weird obsession with home purchases. Perhaps the most important thing is how globalization of finances, along with many other consequences, erased the old boundaries between developing markets and emerging markets, turning China into a bank owner of the US debt, a change of age range. This work is transformed into a document program scenario from Channel 4 and PBS. The photo on the cover uses the Portrait of