Book · 2008 · Economic history
The Ascent of Money
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Niall Ferguson talks about how the greatest parallel from the internet age is probably the printing press, and it resulted in a lot of chaos initially, but in the end, of course, it was responsible for the spreading of wisdom and of learning and of ability to, if you like, share, that transform the way that we live.
Why people recommend it
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson is a comprehensive economic history that traces the evolution of global financial systems, credit, and currency. Lex Fridman recommended the book numerous times across several episodes of the Lex Fridman Podcast in 2020, including his conversations with David Eagleman, Sara Seager, Peter Singer, David Patterson, Steven Pressfield, and Ilya Sutskever. Fridman frequently brought up the title during Cash App sponsor reads while discussing cryptocurrency and the historical context of money. He praised the work as an exceptionally great book for understanding financial history and noted that both the main text and the audiobook format are fantastic resources for anyone looking to learn how modern monetary systems developed over time.
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“Niall Ferguson talks about how the greatest parallel from the internet age is probably the printing press, and it resulted in a lot of chaos initially, but in the end, of course, it was responsible for the spreading of wisdom and of learning and of ability to, if you like, share, that transform the way that we live.”
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“i remember looking at great numbers of these in the british museum when i was writing the ascent of money”
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“and this was the point of the ascent of money as an evolutionary story”
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“and they illustrate something i should have made more clear of the ascent of money that not everything used in payment needs to be money”
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“when it hit me the other day that we actually had this precedent for crypto i got quite excited and thought i wish i had written that in the ascent of money”
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“when i updated the ascent of money which was in 2018 10 years after it came out i wrote a new chapter in which i said bitcoin which had just sold off after its 2017 bubble will rise again through adoption”
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“when i wrote this under money which was in 2008 you couldn't really solve the problem”
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“i recommend ascent of money as a great book on this history”
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“i recommend the scent of money as a great book on this history”
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“I recommend a cent of money as a great book in this history”
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“In my field, I was writing a lot of financial history, I'd written the history of the Rothschilds.”
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“I recommend the scent of money as a great book on this history also the audio book is amazing”
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“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history”
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“i recommend ascent of money as a great book on this history both the book and audiobook are great”
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“let me mention that cryptocurrency in the context of the history of money is fascinating i recommend ascent of money as a great book on this history”
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“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on Ledger's started around 30,000 years ago”
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“Let me mention that cryptocurrency in the context of the history of money is fascinating I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on Ledger's started around 30,000 years ago the US dollar created over two hundred years ago and Bitcoin the first decentralized cryptocurrency released just over ten years ago”
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“let me mention that cryptocurrency in the context of the history of money it's fascinating I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history”
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“let me mention that cryptocurrency in the context of the history of money is fascinating I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history”
Ad read
“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history”
Ad read
“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history”
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“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history”