The Amazing Career of a Pioneer Capitalist

Greg Steinmetz’s "The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger" introduces the most important merchant banker of the sixteenth century to North American readers, few of whom would recognize his name. The book, a careful synopsis of a rich body of scholarly and not-so-scholarly literature in German, is a lively portrait of the late Renaissance and tells the story of how Fugger assembled a private fortune that was unmatched in his day.
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