Chasing Wealth -- Incredible Wealth Stories Over 5,000 Years

Author: Robert Sobel
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Anthropologists have pointed out that the three strongest desires of humans are wealth, status, and power, with wealth ranking first among the three. This book aims to explore the three stages of acquiring wealth, presenting a grand history of human wealth development characterized by rapid accumulation and capital gathering. It is authoritative, highly readable, and collectible. The book covers topics such as ancient societies, the empire eras of Alexander and Rome, medieval Europe: the birth of the new economic era, Italian bankers and their clients, the Atlantic era, European empires in the Americas, Britain's advantage, 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 age of large corporations, government industrial conglomerates, the 1920s' bull market, the new and old empires after World War II, the revival of the securities market, wealth creation during the JPMorgan era, and the democratization of wealth.