by Niall Ferguson · DEBATE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483068137
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«El triunfo del dinero» is Niall Ferguson's economic history essay, published by Debate in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Ferguson traces the history of finance from ancient Babylon to the global crisis, showing how money and financial instruments have shaped the evolution of humanity. He explains the shift from metallic money to paper, the fluctuations of interest rates, stock market bubbles, and the role of insurance and property investment, with examples such as Waterloo, the American Civil War, and the First World War.
The subtitle of the work is «Cómo las finanzas mueven el mundo». The edition corresponds to the Spanish translation of «The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World».
Recommended for readers interested in economic history and in understanding the origin of financial instruments from an accessible perspective.
Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson is a British and American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020.
