The Ascent of Money Episode 2: Human Bondage

Name: The Ascent of Money Episode 2: Human Bondage
Uploaded: 2018-02-04
Description: How did finance become the realm of the masters of the universe? Through the rise of the bond market in Renaissance Italy. With the advent of bonds, war finance was transformed and spread to north-west Europe and across the Atlantic. It was the bond market that made the Rothschilds the richest and most powerful family of the 19th century.

Niall Ferguson · 2018-02-04

Explores how early bond markets reshaped war finance and modern power in Europe and beyond.

Bonds & yields Economic history of EuropePodcast episodebond marketsfinancial intermediation public debtrenaissance italyrothschildssovereign borrowingNiall Ferguson

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