The story of how the greatest minds of the Scientific Revolution applied their new ideas to people, money, and marketsâand along the way, invented modern finance.
What The Reviewers Say
James Grant,
The Wall Street Journal
... vivid.
Jennifer Michaelson,
Booklist
... [a] detailed historical account that connects seemingly unrelated developments.
Kirkus
The story of government debt finance, which sounds boring but definitely isn’t.