THE HOUSE OF MONEY: A NEW HISTORY OF BANKS AND BANKING

Book ID/图书代码： 04700010B38627

English Summary/英文概要： The financial crisis of 2007-2010 thrust the banking industry to the forefront of political and economic debate. This book aims to demystify the popular history of banks, bankers and banking.
In the unfolding drama of the global financial crises of 2007-2010, bankers have been cast in the role of the bad guys: greedy risk-takers whose speculative investments triggered the worst recession since the 1930s; bloated “fat cats” living in a bonus-cushioned bubble divorced from the day-to-day financial struggles of ordinary mortals… It was ever thus, argues Russell-Walling. Throughout their six hundred year history, banks have been courted by princes, potentates, entrepreneurs and statesmen but also loathed and feared for the breadth of their power and reach. We despise banks with a passion born of dependence, for they are the beating heart that keeps money circulating around our lives and our economies. Our history is inseparable from the history of moneylenders. THE HOUSE OF MONEY traces that history through the stories of the world’s great banking houses from the Medici family of 14th century Florence to Goldman Sachs of 21st century Wall Street, much-feared epitome of the modern investment banking house. Each bank is set clearly in historical context and its influence on financial and broader political history explained and assessed. The book also includes special features on the biggest deals and biggest crashes in financial history, from the loan made by the Bardi family to Edward III of England to finance his ruinously expensive wars with France (and which bankrupted the Italian family), to the financing of the Japanese industrial revolution by British banks in the early 20th century and the sensational fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008

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Awards/获奖情况：The financial crisis of 2007?010 thrust the banking industry to the forefront of political and economic debate: now is the moment for a demystifying popular history of banks, bankers and banking.

About the Author/作者介绍： Edward Russell-Walling is a freelance writer and editor who specialises in business and finance and contributes regularly to publications such as the Financial Times, New Statesman and The Banker. His first book, 50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know, was published in the US October 2007 in America and in April 2008 in the UK and has sold in eleven foreign territories.

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