Price Wars
Rupert Russell
Price Wars
Rupert Russell
- Wydawnictwo: Weidenfeld Nicolson
- Rok wydania: 2022
- ISBN: 978-1-4746-1398-9
- Ilość stron: 328
- Format: 15.0 x 23.0 cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: Price Wars - Rupert Russell
For Rupert Russell, the shock of the Trump-Brexit victories was only the
latest in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge
migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children caged at the US
border. In Price Wars he sets out on an improbable journey to
investigate what caused the wave of chaos that consumed the world in the
2010s.
Armed with a notebook, flak jacket and pink socks, Russell travels to
modern apocalypses across five continents, embedding with separatist
soldiers in the trenches of Eastern Ukraine, gangs of street kids
battling over garbage in Caracas, the UN bomb disposal squad in Iraq and
cattle raiders in Northern Kenya. He traces the origins of these
conflicts back to dramatic and mysterious swings in the prices of
essential commodities. He meets with commodity speculators who describe
the inner workings of these volatile markets, explaining how food prices
can spike even in years of abundant harvests, causing bread riots and
revolutions. Oil prices can surge on rumours, enriching and emboldening
dictators and terrorists alike. These price shocks, and many others
across the decade, triggered local disasters that became global
catastrophes. It is chaotic prices, Russell learned, fuelled by banks
and hedge funds in New York and London, that have toppled regimes and
fractured the West.
Price Wars is a page-turning chronicle of discovery and a
ground-breaking expose of the power of price to devastate the world.
Szczegóły: Price Wars - Rupert Russell
Tytuł: Price Wars
Autor: Rupert Russell
Wydawnictwo: Weidenfeld Nicolson
Kod paskowy: 9781474613989
ISBN: 978-1-4746-1398-9
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 328
Format: 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.415 kg