Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World - Softcover

Lewis, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393343448 ISBN 13: 9780393343441

Verlag: Norton & Company, 2012

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BOOMERANG. TRAVELS IN THE NEW THIRD WORLD DE LEWIS, MICHAEL. ED. NORTON, 2012, IDIOMA: INGLES

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Lewis s rare gift as a guide through the world of credit default swaps and sovereign debt doesn t come simply from his deep understanding of how the global financial system works . . . also his skill as a storyteller, his ability to tell the larger tale through fascinating human stories of greed, excess, and self-delusion. --Chuck Leddy"

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The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.

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• Verlag: Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393343448
• ISBN 13: 9780393343441
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216