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A Fabulous Debt

The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World

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A Fabulous Debt

著者： Robin Wigglesworth
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From veteran Financial Times journalist, an epic history of the debt that built the modern world.

Long considered the "boring" corner of finance, bonds are anything but. They have funded everything from the Crusades to climate tech, Netflix series to AI data centers. They are now bigger than the stock market and rival even the global banking system in influence. They are also misunderstood—treated as mere debt, when in fact their form, function, and impact are radically different.
In A Fabulous Debt, Robin Wigglesworth—The Financial Times’ Global Finance Correspondent, and author of the acclaimed Trillions—offers a sweeping, affectionate history of the bond market. From the dam-builders of 17th-century Holland to the trillion-dollar portfolios of BlackRock, this is a people’s history of finance: rich in drama, full of colorful characters, and bursting with insight.
With clarity and wit, Wigglesworth takes readers from medieval Venice to modern Wall Street, tracing how bonds evolved from obscure financial instruments into the invisible architecture of the modern world. Along the way, we meet warlords and water boards, merchant princes and mathematicians, financiers and fraudsters—all of whom helped build the most powerful machine in global finance. This isn’t just a book about the past. It's a guide to the present and future of the financial system—and a love letter to the engine that keeps it running.


© Robin Wigglesworth 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

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Stocks get all the glory, but bonds rule the world. A Fabulous Debt is a compelling history of a powerful idea. (JACOB GOLDSTEIN, author of MONEY)
Robin Wigglesworth's deft treatment of fear and greed in bonds will entertain and educate you - and just might save your bacon as well. (WILLIAM J. BERNSTEIN, author of A SPLENDID EXCHANGE)
A delightful romp through 850 years of western history. And for once, a financial instrument is cast as the hero of the tale. (SEBASTIAN MALLABY, author of THE INFINITY MACHINE)
Crucial reading to understand the global economy of the 2020s and how we got here. (DUNCAN WELDON, author of BLOOD & TREASURE)
In this rip-roaring book, Robin Wigglesworth takes us from the bonds that funded Hamilton’s vision for America to Britain’s rise as a global power. Told with wit, colour, and insight, A Fabulous Debt is more than a finance book: it’s the story of how the modern world was built. (ALEX EDMANS, Finance Professor, London Business School and author of THE MADNESS OF MARKETS)
At last, thanks to Robin Wigglesworth, we have an engaging and colorful history of the bond market and the innovative financiers who launched, shaped, and improved it from its origins in the Middle Ages to the 21st century. This is a major contribution to financial history. (RICHARD SYLLA, author of A HISTORY OF INTEREST RATES)
Wigglesworth brings to life the unlikely cast of visionaries, rogues, and nation-builders who shaped the bond market over eight centuries. The result is a riveting history of the financial instrument that funded empires, defeated Napoleon, and quietly underwrites the modern world. (WILLIAM GOETZMANN, Yale University, author of MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING)
I love the bond market for the many secrets it reveals on a daily basis about our global economy and the many, many individual components of it. But it also an enigmatic, mysterious and poorly understood phenomenon. Wigglesworth's important work pulls the curtain back on the wonders and the risks inherent in a world awash in some $340 trillion of debt. "Whether we like it or not," he writes, "we now live in a world where the bond market can truly intimidate everyone." A Fabulous Debt correctly asks the important question of whether we, collectively, have the guts to deal with that reality. (WILLIAM COHAN, author of POWER FAILURE, THE LAST TYCOONS and HOUSE OF CARDS)
A readable, wise and panoramic history of the bond markets from their inception in Venice in 1172 through to the current day. And, given the imminent threat of yet another sovereign debt crisis, most timely. (EDWARD CHANCELLOR author of THE PRICE OF TIME: THE REAL STORY OF INTEREST)
A sweeping history of a force-multiplying, time-travelling, fraud-enabling, civilisation-building invention. Erudite, educational and a lot of fun. (TIM HARFORD, author of HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP)
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