Price Wars by Rupert Russell
A fascinating, groundbreaking expos 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 expos of the power of the commodities markets to disrupt the world.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780385545853 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385545851 |
| Title | Price Wars |
| Author | Rupert Russell |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2022-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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