Nos
publications
- Exposé
- Univers
- Articles
- Critique Littéraire
- The Next Decade - critiqué par Remi Maloney
- The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers - critiqué par James McKeough
- The Big Short - critiqué par Marie-Michelle Dumas
- Critique littéraire par John Shingler: The Age of Wonder
- Critique littéraire par John Shingler: The Ascent of Money
- Critique littéraire par John Shingler: Lords of Finance
- Critique littéraire par John Shingler: Billions of Entrepreneurs
- Prix et reconnaissance
Critique littéraire par John Shingler: The Ascent of Money
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, by Niall Ferguson. NY. Penguin Press, 2008. 442 pp. $29.95.
The title of The Ascent of Money, we should note, is a deliberate reference to the famed television series, The Ascent of Man, written and narrated by the late Jacob Bronowski. In that work Bronowski addressed the place of human beings, and their evolution, in the framework of natural history. Bronowski’s series on human beings had a substantial influence on the young Ferguson, who is trying in The Ascent to do the same thing for money, that highly contested and much debated human invention and artefact that Bronowski did for the original inventors, human beings. I would claim that Ferguson succeeds.
