The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earths Resources Blas Javier
The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earths Resources Blas Javier Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardAn Economist Book of the…
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The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earths Resources Blas Javier
Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardAn Economist Book of the YearThe modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones.We rarely stop to consider where they have come from. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets, enabling an enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world's financial centers. But we should.The World for Sale lifts the lid on one of the least scrutinized corners of the world economy: the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard, and sell the earth's resources.
The result is an eye-opening tour through the wildest frontiers of the global economy, as well as a
The World for Sale