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Price wars : how the commodities markets made our chaotic world / Rupert Russell.
Lippincott Library HG6046 .R94 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Russell, Rupert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commodity exchanges.
- International finance.
- Pricing.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A shattering account of the destabilizing power of price, and a powerful critique of the free market philosophy that leaves the most vulnerable at the mercy of the commodities markets"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I PRICES
- 1. Chaos: Why Societies Boil at 210
- 2. Magic: Fairy Tales, Financial Alchemy and the Business of Cargo Cults
- pt. II WARS
- 3. Perception: Pricing ISIS in Iraq
- 4. Contagion: Typhoons, Trump, Brexit, Brazil, Belt and Road
- 5. Boom: Putin's Chestiness Engulfs Ukraine
- 6. Bust: Venezuela's Fractal Apocalypse
- pt. III CLIMATE
- 7. Multiply: Climate Chaos in Kenya from Mad Max to War Games
- 8. Arbitrage: Al-Shabaab, the Terrorist Hedge Fund
- 9. Short: Coffee, Coyotes, Kids in Cages
- pt. IV IMAGININGS
- 10. Covid-19: The Climate-Finance Doomsday Device Detonates.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Russell, Rupert. Price wars
- ISBN:
- 9780385545853
- 0385545851
- OCLC:
- 1249629827
- Publisher Number:
- 99989762624
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