The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

by Nicholas Shaxson

Book Overview

A searing indictment of global finance, exploring how the banking sector grew from a supporter of business to the biggest business in the world, and showing how societies might fight against financial hegemony

Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the "resource curse," seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802128475
• ISBN13: 9780802128478
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"