How Long to Read The Rise and Fall of the City of Money

How Long Does it Take to Read The Rise and Fall of the City of Money?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 36 minutes to read The Rise and Fall of the City of Money by Ray Perman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance. This is the story, not just of the institutions which were respected worldwide, but of the personalities too, such as the two hard-drinking Presbyterian ministers who founded the first actuarially-based pension fund; Sir Walter Scott, who faced financial ruin, but wrote his way out of it; the men who financed American railways and eastern rubber plantations with Scottish money; and Fred Goodwin, notorious CEO of RBS, who took the bank to be the biggest in the world, but crashed and burned in 2008.

How long is The Rise and Fall of the City of Money?

The Rise and Fall of the City of Money by Ray Perman is 512 pages long, and a total of 129,024 words.

This makes it 173% the length of the average book. It also has 158% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Rise and Fall of the City of Money Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 45 minutes to read The Rise and Fall of the City of Money aloud.

What Reading Level is The Rise and Fall of the City of Money?

The Rise and Fall of the City of Money is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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