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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Penguin
Price: $29.95
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NIALL FERGUSON
discusses The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Harvard's Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at the Business School NIALL FERGUSON for a discussionof his well-timed new book The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. In his latest book, Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history.
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617.661.1515
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617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Tuesday, November 18th |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Niall Ferguson is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at
Harvard University, William Ziegler Professor of Business
Administration at Harvard Business School, a Senior Research Fellow of
Jesus College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution,
Stanford. The bestselling author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschild, The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus, Empire, Colossus, and The War of the World, he is also a contributing editor of the Financial Times. Since 2003 he has written and presented three highly successful television documentary series for British television: Empire, American Colossus, and, most recently, The War of the World. The Ascent of Money
is a PBS co-production scheduled to be broadcast in 2009. He and his
family divide their time between the United Kingdom and the United
States.
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