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Road to Riches is the story of the rise and fall of whole economies and nations, and the ascent of man as the only economic animal - as producer, consumer and accumulator of wealth. Ideas about the story of the wealth of man are constantly changing. Peter Jay explains how the economic machine works and how far beyond our control it really is. Peter Jay has spent his working life in both Britain and America, following and explaining the day-to-day twists and turns of fortune throughout the world. As he searches for deeper explanations of the forces that disturb our complacency and change our lives, he has felt the need to reach further back into history to find more enduring truths about complexities of economic patterns.
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About the Author:
Educated at Oxford and a veteran of the Royal Navy, Peter Jay has a long and acclaimed career as a journalist, historian, and government official. He served for six years in the British Treasury Department before joining the Times as Economics Editor. After a decade at the paper, he was appointed Ambassador to the United States. He is currently the Economics Editor for the BBC and a frequent presence on British television. The Wealth of Man will tie into a major six-part BBC documentary narrated by Jay. He lives in Oxfordshire, England.
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Quixotic it may appear to proffer a one-volume history of the world economy that holds interest, but Jay succeeds. Exhibiting the flair of a journalist and the worldly wisdom of a finance official, both of which professions occupied him in Britain, Jay jaunts from the dawn of agriculture to the globalized present. His story adheres to a highly serviceable metaphor for humanity's work for wealth: the waltz. First, an advance increases wealth; the increase attracts political attention; and the threat to wealth from politics eventuates in rules to regulate or protect wealth from capricious avarice. Commanding a capacious fund of information, Jay advances illustrations of his waltz motif from the first recorded wars in the Fertile Crescent to wealth's modern three-step in China. Yet Jay's erudition is not designed for impressing readers, but for informing them about the buildup of the material platform of contemporary civilization--about which most are unreflecting. Far from an apology for laissez-faire, Jay's accessible, nontechnical history outlines wealth's accumulations and dissipations as a way of cautioning against sanguine expectations of unending prosperity. Bonnie Smothers
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- PublisherDiane Pub Co
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0756784948
- ISBN 13 9780756784942
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages373
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