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The Cash Nexus by Niall Ferguson — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Cash Nexus

by Niall Ferguson

Money and power from 1700 to 2000: taxation, debt, war, democracy. Dense and scholarly.

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  1. War made the fiscal state.
  2. Debt funds power.
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