Chasing Wealth: Five Thousand Years of Amazing Wealth Stories

Author: Robert Sobel
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book includes content such as ancient society, the empire era of Alexander and Rome, the Middle Ages in Europe: the birth of the new economic era, Italian bankers and their clients, the Atlantic era, the European empire in the Americas, the advantage of Britain, the path to wealth in the United States, industrial wealth, the commercialization of agriculture, infrastructure and wealth, gold and silver and the Civil War, the impact of transcontinental railroads, the arrival of the era of large enterprises, government industrial conglomerates, the bull market of the 1920s, the new and old empires after World War II, the revival of the securities market, wealth creation during the JPM period, and the democratization of wealth.