Thе Cаsh Nеxus: Monеy аnd Powеr in thе Modеrn World, 1700-2000
Publisher: Bаsic Books
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2001-03-06
List price: $30.00
An acclaimed historian offers a radical new history of the links between politics and economics, one that draws unsettling conclusions about the future of both capitalism and democracy Does money make the world go round, as Cabaret’s Master of Ceremonies sang to us? In The Cash Nexus, acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical and surprising answer-No. Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or the Internet. In our own time Paul Kennedy has claimed that economics provided the key to internat...