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Javier Blas, Jack Farchy The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources Book
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Which resources are most important for humanity? What do we know about the main beneficiaries of trade in these resources?
This book explores the rise and global influence of commodity traders—the fastest and most aggressive market participants who buy, hoard, and sell the Earth’s resources. Their interests have long extended beyond the economy: control over the flow of oil, grain, or metals has turned traders into influential political players, violators of international sanctions, and catalysts for unprecedented corruption. They seized political power right under the noses of Western regulators and politicians, used others to eliminate opponents, helped Saddam Hussein’s autocratic regime sell oil despite the embargo, supplied Russia with cash while circumventing sanctions, manipulated OPEC, and hooked entire countries on the needle of resource dependency.
To understand why poverty prevails and kleptocrats dominate in resource-rich nations, you need to know everything about traders. And *The World for Sale* is an indispensable guide on this journey.
Number of pages: 368.
This book explores the rise and global influence of commodity traders—the fastest and most aggressive market participants who buy, hoard, and sell the Earth’s resources. Their interests have long extended beyond the economy: control over the flow of oil, grain, or metals has turned traders into influential political players, violators of international sanctions, and catalysts for unprecedented corruption. They seized political power right under the noses of Western regulators and politicians, used others to eliminate opponents, helped Saddam Hussein’s autocratic regime sell oil despite the embargo, supplied Russia with cash while circumventing sanctions, manipulated OPEC, and hooked entire countries on the needle of resource dependency.
To understand why poverty prevails and kleptocrats dominate in resource-rich nations, you need to know everything about traders. And *The World for Sale* is an indispensable guide on this journey.
Number of pages: 368.
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