Money Changes Everything : How Finance Made Civilization Possible

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 600 pages

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Imprint:Princeton University Press

Edition:Revised ed

ISBN:9780691178370

Published:15 Aug 2017

Weight:572g

Dimensions:204 x 140 x 41 (mm)

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書籍簡介

“一部貨幣和金融的輝煌歷史。”——《紐約時報》書評“令人信服地證明，金融是變革者中的變革者。”在最近的金融危機之後，人們很容易將金融視為一個破壞球:它摧毀財富和就業，破壞政府和銀行。在《貨幣改變一切》一書中，著名金融歷史學家威廉·格茨曼提出了完全相反的觀點，即金融的發展使文明的發展成為可能。戈茨曼解釋説，金融是一台時間機器，一種能讓我們的價值隨着時間向前或向後移動的技術;這種創新改變了我們思考和規劃未來的方式。

他展示了金融是歷史上在關鍵時刻:駕駛在古美索不達米亞的發明,刺激希臘和羅馬的古典文明成為大帝國,確定中華帝國王朝的興衰和承銷貿易考察導致歐洲新的世界。他還展示了我們與現代經濟聯繫在一起的機制——股票市場、信貸額度、複雜的金融產品和國際貿易——是如何在人類歷史的進程中不斷地被髮展、遺忘和重新發明的。戈茨曼探討了幾千年來金融在世界範圍內的重要作用，詳細描述了令人驚歎的金融技術和金融機構——貨幣、*、銀行、公司等等——是如何幫助城市中心擴張和文化繁榮的。

戈茨曼在考慮我們未來面臨的挑戰時，比如如何利用金融的力量來照顧不斷老齡化和增長的人口，但這並沒有改變我們的生活。貨幣改變一切呈現了一幅金融引導歷史進程的迷人圖景。

"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something that destroys fortunes and jobs, and undermines governments and banks. In Money Changes Everything, leading financial historian William Goetzmann argues the exact opposite--that the development of finance has made the growth of civilizations possible. Goetzmann explains that finance is a time machine, a technology that allows us to move value forward and backward through time; and that this innovation has changed the very way we think about and plan for the future.

He shows how finance was present at key moments in history: driving the invention of writing in ancient Mesopotamia, spurring the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome to become great empires, determining the rise and fall of dynasties in imperial China, and underwriting the trade expeditions that led Europeans to the New World. He also demonstrates how the apparatus we associate with a modern economy--stock markets, lines of credit, complex financial products, and international trade--were repeatedly developed, forgotten, and reinvented over the course of human history. Exploring the critical role of finance over the millennia, and around the world, Goetzmann details how wondrous financial technologies and institutions--money, bonds, banks, corporations, and more--have helped urban centers to expand and cultures to flourish.

And it's not done reshaping our lives, as Goetzmann considers the challenges we face in the future, such as how to use the power of finance to care for an aging and expanding po

作者簡介

William N. Goetzmann是耶魯大學管理學院埃德温金融管理教授和國際金融中心主任。他的著作包括《價值的起源:創造現代金融市場的金融創新》和《愚蠢的大鏡子:金融、文化和1720年的崩潰》。

William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management and director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. His books include The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created the Modern Financial Markets and The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720.