The cash nexus: money and power in the modern world, 1700-2000 (Allen Lane History Ser.)
Business and economics, Economics
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Throughout modern history, the way states have managed their money has been crucial to their survival and success. It has been finance as much as firepower that has decided the fates of nations in the supreme test of war. The… cash nexus is the crucial point where money and power meet. But does money make the political world go round? Does the success of democracy depend on economic growth? Does victory always go to the richest of the great powers? Or are financial markets the true 'masters' of the modern world? 2001.