- Published: 17 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780141990262
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 560
- RRP: $22.99
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World
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- Published: 17 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780141990262
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 560
- RRP: $22.99
Beautifully written . . . Breathtakingly clever
Sunday Telegraph
A lucid and racy account of financial history
New Statesman
A fine, readable and entertaining history
Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
The tales he tells of boom and bust, of triumph and disaster, of bubbles that inflate . . . are the very essence of financial history
Bill Emmott, Financial Times
An often enlightening and enjoyable tour through the underside of great events, a lesson in how the most successful great powers have always been underpinned by smart money
Robert Skidelsky, New York Review of Books