Oxford University Press, USA
The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
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- Javier Blas
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Paperback
- 9780197651537
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- Business & Economics > International - General
- English
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An Economist Book of the Year
The 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. 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. 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. The result is an eye-opening tour through the wildest frontiers of the global economy, as well as a revelatory guide to how capitalism really
works.
Author Bio
Javier Blas is Chief Energy Correspondent at Bloomberg News and covers
Javier Blas was appointed Financial Times’ commodities editor in 2010, having joined the newspaper in 2007 as commodities correspondent. He led a team of reporters based in London, Beijing and New York covering oil, metals and agricultural commodities markets, trading houses, and the geopolitics of natural resources.
Previously, he reported on the international economy for the leading Spanish business daily, Expansion. Blas was awarded the A. H. Boerma prize by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation for his coverage of the 2007-08 food crisis.
He was born in Spain and received a BA / MA in journalism from the University of Navarra, Spain, where he specialized in business journalism. He also studied political communication at Sheffield University, United Kingdom.
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