A Brief History of World Finance

What is the code for the rise and fall of civilizations? What are the rules for rights? What is the logic behind rich and poor? This book uses time as a clue, takes the development core of the financial industry, and uses vivid and humorous language to analyze the codes of rise and fall and the laws of advance and retreat in the process of world civilization one by one. From shells to coins, from insurance to stocks, from financial institutions to the top wealthy... Whether it is the establishment of an empire on which the sun never sets, or the financial crisis affecting the world, the power of money is behind it. In the alternation between prosperous times and troubled times, finance uses currency as a tool to slowly move its invisible hand. Three thousand years of world history is actually a history of finance. From 1500 BC to the 21st century, understand the ins and outs of the financial world, see how finance shapes human civilization step by step, and connects together a magnificent picture of currency, debt, wealth and the development of human society.