Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World by Russell, Rupert

Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World

A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabilized societies all...
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Author: Rupert Russell
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Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World by Russell, Rupert

Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World

$60.23

Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World

$60.23
Author: Rupert Russell
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A fascinating, groundbreaking exposé of how commodity traders in New York and London have destabilized societies all over the world, leaving the most vulnerable at the mercy of hunger, chaos, and war.

For Rupert Russell, the Brexit vote was only the latest shock in a decade full of them: the unstoppable war in Syria, huge migrant flows into Europe, beheadings in Iraq, children placed in cages on the U.S. border. In Price Wars, he sets out on a worldwide journey to investigate what caused the wave of chaos that consumed the world in the 2010s.

Russell travels to Tunisia, Iraq, Venezuela, Ukraine, East Africa, and Central America and discovers that unrest in all these places was triggered by dramatic and mysterious swings in the price of essential commodities. Deregulation of the commodities markets means that food prices can shoot up even in years of abundant harvests, causing hunger and protest. Oil prices and real-estate values can surge even when supplies are normal, enriching and emboldening dictators. It is this instability--fueled by banks and hedge funds in faraway New York and London--that has toppled regimes and unsettled the West.

Price Wars is a fascinating, original, and groundbreaking exposé of the power of the commodities markets to disrupt the world.

Author: Rupert Russell
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780385545853


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 12/06/2021

About the Author
RUPERT RUSSELL has a Double-Starred First in the Social and Political Sciences from Jesus College, Cambridge, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He has published in the The Independent, Huffington Post, Salon, Paper, Dazed, and the Annual Review of Sociology, and has written and directed two award-winning documentary films. Price Wars is his first book.

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