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The Cash Nexus: Economics and Politics from the Age of Warfare Through the Age of Welfare, 1700-2000 » (Reprint)

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Authors: Niall Ferguson
ISBN-13: 9780465023264, ISBN-10: 0465023266
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: January 2002
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of Paper and Iron, The House of Rothschilds, and The Pity of War ). He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, and lives in Oxford.

Book Synopsis

Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson offers a radical new history of the links between politics and economics, drawing unsettling conclusions about the future of capitalism and democracy.

New York Times - Alan Riding

[Niall Ferguson is] the most talked-about British historian of his generation.

	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
Sect. 1	Spending and Taxing
1	The Rise and Fall of the Warfare State	25
2	'Hateful Taxes'	54
3	The Commons and the Castle: Representation and Administration	81
Sect. 2	Promises to Pay
4	Mountains of the Moon: Public Debts	109
5	The Money Printers: Default and Debasement	142
6	Of Interest	169
Sect. 3	Economic Politics
7	Dead Weights and Tax-eaters: The Social History of Finance	195
8	The Myth of the Feelgood Factor	224
9	The Silverbridge Syndrome: Electoral Economics	253
Sect. 4	Global Power
10	Masters and Plankton: Financial Globalization	279
11	Golden Fetters, Paper Chains: International Monetary Regimes	315
12	The American Wave: Democracy's Flow and Ebb	341
13	Fractured Unities	369
14	Understretch: The Limits of Economic Power	387
	Conclusion	417
	Appendices	425
	Notes	433
	Bibliography	487
	Index	529