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Sub-title: A 500-year history of Empires, Adventures, and Debt, Public
Affairs, n. Y., 2014, 424 pgs., index, bibliography, notes, illustrations
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Reviewer's comments: The author cuts off the history of debt before
1500 - He notes that the huge increase in gold and silver generated by the
Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru was a dramatic turing point in history. His
objective is to examine and analyse the causes and results of the fianaical
crisis of 2008. His selection of a starting date for this analysis is a good
one. The firsr chapters are critical, the author provides a clear picture, but
does not expand the latent points by sufficient analysis of what he is
describing.
Niall Fergson in is The Acent of Money
also focuses mostly on current financial problems with some attention
to the development of money-credit since the 16th century. And Felix Martin in
his The Unauthorized Biogrpahy of
Money provides yet another way of looking at the history of finance.
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - Sweat of the Sun
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Chapter 2 - Rival Nations - England and France
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Chapter 3 - Revolutions
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Chapter 4 - Pillars of Order
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Chapter 5 - Great Republic
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Chapter 6 - London 1914
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Chapter 7 - Guns and Shells
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Chapter 8 - Victors and Vanquished
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Chapter 9 - World Crisis
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Chapter 10 - Bretton Woods
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Chapter 11 - Pax Americana
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Chapter 12 - Weary Titans
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Chapter 13 - Japan Incorporated
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Chapter 14 - Imperial Retreat
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Chapter 15 - The Impact of Oil
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Chapter 16 - Thatcher and Regan
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Chapter 17 - The Creation of the Euro
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Chapter 18 - The Rise of China
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Chapter 19 - Delusions of Debt
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Chapter 20 - Crises and 'Bailouts'
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Epilogue and Conclusion
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