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View Full Version : Has anyone read Niall Ferguson's book The Ascent of Money?



Kid of the Black Hole
01-05-2010, 01:48 PM
I ask because all of the reviews says its hard right free market cheerleading, which I don't doubt, but his PBS special is surpisingly candid if you read ever-so-slightly between the lines and he seemed to NOT be living in conspiracy la-la land except for some superificial crapola that is, again, easy to look past.

I'm not interested in reading the book really, but I am wondering if anyone else knows what I'm saying here. For instance, I don't believe he even mentions FDR and the gold standard or Bretton Wood and Nixon except perhaps in passing. Which, in my experience, is as peculiar as it is refreshing