The cash nexus : money and power in the modern world, 1700-2000

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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 international power, while Francis Fukuyama and others have argued that capitalism doomed socialism and ensured the victory of democracy. Small wonder politicians are obsessed with the economy: the Clinton campaign motto-"It's the economy stupid" -sums up a central tenet of modern life.But is it the economy? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the "nexus," to use Thomas Carlyle's term-between economics and politics, in the aftermath not only of the failure of socialism but also of the apparent triumph of American-style capitalism. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. In particular, political events and institutions have often dominated economic development. A bold synthesis of political history and modern economic theory, Cash Nexus will transform the landscape of modern history and draw challenging and unsettling conclusions about the prospects of both capitalism and democracy. … celý popis

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Hlavní autor

Niall Ferguson, 1964-

Typ dokumentu

Knihy

Fyzický popis

xix, 552 s. : il.

Vydáno

New York : Basic Books, 2001

Témata

1700-2000

peněžnictví

dějiny peněz

veřejné finance

daně

ekonomie a politika

banking industry

history of money

public finance

taxation

economics and politics

monografie

monographs

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ISBN

0-465-02326-6
0-465-02325-8