The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance

by Peter Stalker

An incisive introduction to global finance--where money comes from, the current mechanisms, and the need for control and reform. It traces the origins of money as a source of exchange and a store of value and the many weird forms it now takes--visible and invisible. The guide sets recent events into context, indicating how the flows of money directed by an unaccountable elite increasingly shape economic, political, and social activity. Peter Stalker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906523185
• ISBN13: 9781906523183
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: New Internationalist
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.3" x 7.0"