Eminent historian Kwasi Kwarteng takes a unique look at the financial world and its troubled history, from the disaster that befell Spain in the sixteenth century to the 2008 global financial crisis
Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He has a PhD in History from Cambridge University and was elected as the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. His first book, Ghosts of Empire, was published to critical acclaim in 2011. www.kwart2010.com @kwasikwarteng
A searing study of how the Spanish conquistadors introduced
conflict for the sake of wealth shows that money and battle remain
inseparable ... Few stones are left unlifted in this study, the
sub-title of which gives every clue as to its ambition
*Independent*
Here is a book that explores the financial cost of war, rather than
the human ... Kwarteng is thorough and insightful, weaving a
narrative that transports the reader convincingly through time and
place
*Evening Standard*
As befits a highly intelligent man, the author describes these
complex issues in an eminently digestible way ... Has he foretold
the next catastrophe?
*Standpoint*
A complicated story well told, from which financial lessons emerge
naturally without Kwarteng finding it necessary to bludgeon the
reader with his message
*Financial Times*
A former financial analyst with an impeccable academic track record
... Aggressively intellectual ... An exciting political thinker
*Sunday Times*
A meaty, thoughtful and well-written book
*Literary Review*
Absorbing history of humankind’s most enduring preoccupations – war
and gold ... A fascinating, lucid and serious history of money,
from the discovery of the wealth of the Americans to the present
financial crisis
*The Times*
Enormously entertaining ... turns the evolution of money of the
past 500 years into a rollicking narrative ... His book is so
engagingly written that readers of all political persuasions should
enjoy it
*Sunday Times*
This exhaustive and convincingly argued history of money comes from
an author whose day job is to sit in the House of Commons ... He
certainly understands the forces and the mistakes that have led to
that destabilisation
*Observer*
This 500-year study of how cash and gold have affected high
politics makes for surprisingly compelling reading
*The Times Culture*
From Adam Smith to J M Keynes and their successors, he shows how
interpretations of past crises have shaped and steered economic
policy
*Independent*
A convincing and imaginative way of explaining the fragility of
modern financial systems
*New Statesman*
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