Category: Academics, Trading, Business & Finance
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.