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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2015; vuoden 2015 painos)

Tekijä: Greg Steinmetz (Tekijä)

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"The life and times of the wealthiest man who ever lived--Jacob Fugger--the Renaissance banker who revolutionized the art of making money and established the radical idea of pursuing wealth for its own sake. Jacob Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP. Not even John D. Rockefeller had that kind of wealth. Most people become rich by spotting opportunities, pioneering new technologies, or besting opponents in negotiations. Fugger did all that, but he had an extra quality that allowed him to rise even higher: nerve. In an era when kings had unlimited power, Fugger had the nerve to stare down heads of state and ask them to pay back their loans--with interest. It was this coolness and self-assurance, along with his inexhaustible ambition, that made him not only the richest man ever, but a force of history as well. Before Fugger came along it was illegal under church law to charge interest on loans, but he got the Pope to change that. He also helped trigger the Reformation and likely funded Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe. His creation of a news service, which gave him an information edge over his rivals and customers, earned Fugger a footnote in the history of journalism. And he took Austria's Habsburg family from being second-tier sovereigns to rulers of the first empire where the sun never set. The ultimate untold story, The Richest Man Who Ever Lived is more than a tale about the richest and most influential businessman of all time. It is a story about palace intrigue, knights in battle, family tragedy and triumph, and a violent clash between the 1 percent and everybody else. To understand our financial system and how we got it, it pays to understand Jacob Fugger"--… (lisätietoja)
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Teoksen nimi:The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger
Kirjailijat:Greg Steinmetz (Tekijä)
Info:Simon & Schuster (2015), 304 pages
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Avainsanoja:Biography, Early Modern, Economic History

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I don't know why, but it reads like a Wikipedia entry.

Если бы Forbes существовал в XVI веке, то проблем с определением лидера рейтинга состоятельных людей не было: за явным преимуществом побеждал бы немец Якоб Фуггер. В современных ценах его состояние составляет $300–400 млрд. Состояние Джона Рокфеллера, для сравнения, сегодня оценивают в $305–325 млрд.

Как это случается и в современности, основой его состояния стали полезные ископаемые. В какой-то момент семейное предприятие Фуггеров практически владело монополией на торговлю медью в Европе (монополия же эта была добыта услугами, оказанными венценосным особам). Однако одно дело — завладеть природными богатствами, а другое — не потерять их.

Фуггеры нашли выход в строгом бухгалтерском учете — невиданное для тех времен дело — и аудите. Якоб первым стал использовать тройки аудиторов: «Крайне редко трое людей разделяют одни и те же взгляды, когда дело касается дурных намерений». Другим столпом богатства стало банковское дело, укреплявшее его влияние среди императоров и королей.

Человек с таким состоянием не мог не оставить следа в истории. Нам известно не так много о жизни Якоба — публичности он не любил. Самым явным напоминанием о его деятельности служит первый в мире квартал социального жилья «Фуггерай», существующий по сей день в Аугсбурге. Построенные за 450 лет до хрущевок, эти дома, возможно, даже комфортабельнее. Однако историкам еще предстоит пролить свет на косвенные «успехи» немца. Так, строительство жемчужины Ватикана, собора Св. Петра (и сбор средств на него посредством продажи индульгенций) было начато с целью рассчитаться с долгами папы перед Якобом. Так что Фуггер — невольный отец Реформации.

Ради доступа своего сырья к рынкам ему удалось разгромить другую легендарную монополию — Ганзейский союз, державший под контролем всю морскую торговлю от Лондона до Новгорода. Он (в корыстных целях, конечно) учредил собственную службу новостей, приносившую вести со всей Европы, и, возможно, спонсировал Магеллана. Однако последствия лишь одного свершения Фуггера ощущаются по сей день. Его стараниями был снят церковный запрет на ростовщичество. Теперь вы знаете, кому адресовать проклятия или благодарности за свой автокредит и ипотеку.
  Den85 | Jan 3, 2024 |
This was an interesting, but somewhat repetitive biography of a very influential banker. I would have liked it better if it was about 1/2 as long. Also the Kindle version was missing sentences about once a chapter. ( )
  megacool24 | Dec 18, 2023 |
The story of Jacob Fugger is fascinating. Steinmetz covers that thoroughly and puts it into a narrative that flows reasonably well. None of the prose in here is going to blow you away, but it's serviceable enough. Where this falls down is in the amount of additional information that Steinmetz includes. Clearly he did a ton of research (7 years' worth, according to his own afterword) and wanted to include as much as possible. Personally, I think it would have been a better book if he'd cut out maybe a quarter and tightened it up to just cover Fugger, and not spend so much time on ancillary characters and historical events, which give context but do not otherwise add any value. But then you'd have a 212 page book instead of 283 pages and might not be able to sell it for $18 a piece. Who knows. Regardless, anyone interested in this story will have a good time and that's worth the price of admission (imo). ( )
  invisiblelizard | Jul 12, 2023 |
Biography of the medieval financier and power-player. While certainly harsh on Jacob Fugger, it has to be said that the critiques are pretty fair, and Fugger's contemporary critics aren't spared, either. A very interesting analysis of the origins of the capitalist system, and how it began to emerge in the XVIth century. Recommended. ( )
  EricCostello | Nov 11, 2020 |
Steinmetz relates the fascinating story of Jacob Fugger’s life and times in clean, clear prose. It is a story that illustrates in its own way the European transition from Late Medieval to Early Modern.

I was disappointed to learn that the name rhymes with cougar, but Steinmetz tells us that there is a tax ledger in the municipal archives of Augsburg recording the arrival of Hans (Jacob's grandfather) in 1373, that reads—in a mashup of vernacular German and bureaucratic Latin—Fucker Advenit (“Fugger Arrives”).

Jacob Fugger built the largest commercial & financial enterprise in Europe. His business interests intersected with the shift in textile production from northern Italy to southern Germany in the wake of the Black Death, the expansion of Habsburg dominions into Spain and the Low Countries, Portugal’s capture of the Indian spice trade from Venice and the Arabs, the lifting of the Church’s ban on usury by Medici Pope Leo X, the Russian demand for metal and weapons under Ivan the Terrible, the alliance of Austria and Hungary as a bulwark against Ottoman encroachment, and much else besides. Steinmetz even suggests that a bribe purportedly paid by Fugger to Pope Leo to secure the appointment of Albrecht of Hohenzollern as archbishop of Mainz led to the increasing use of indulgences as a ‘church-funding device,’ and we know what Martin Luther thought of that. ( )
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"The life and times of the wealthiest man who ever lived--Jacob Fugger--the Renaissance banker who revolutionized the art of making money and established the radical idea of pursuing wealth for its own sake. Jacob Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP. Not even John D. Rockefeller had that kind of wealth. Most people become rich by spotting opportunities, pioneering new technologies, or besting opponents in negotiations. Fugger did all that, but he had an extra quality that allowed him to rise even higher: nerve. In an era when kings had unlimited power, Fugger had the nerve to stare down heads of state and ask them to pay back their loans--with interest. It was this coolness and self-assurance, along with his inexhaustible ambition, that made him not only the richest man ever, but a force of history as well. Before Fugger came along it was illegal under church law to charge interest on loans, but he got the Pope to change that. He also helped trigger the Reformation and likely funded Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe. His creation of a news service, which gave him an information edge over his rivals and customers, earned Fugger a footnote in the history of journalism. And he took Austria's Habsburg family from being second-tier sovereigns to rulers of the first empire where the sun never set. The ultimate untold story, The Richest Man Who Ever Lived is more than a tale about the richest and most influential businessman of all time. It is a story about palace intrigue, knights in battle, family tragedy and triumph, and a violent clash between the 1 percent and everybody else. To understand our financial system and how we got it, it pays to understand Jacob Fugger"--

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