The World for Sale

Javier Blas and Jack Farchy are two of the best-known journalists covering energy, commodities and trading houses. Today, they both work for Bloomberg News, where Blas is Chief Energy Correspondent and Farchy is a Senior Reporter covering natural resources. Working together both at the FinancialTimes and now at Bloomberg, they've interviewed most of the key figures in the commodity trading industry, in many cases the first interviews the traders had ever given. They have an extensive network of contacts among executives, financiers, investors, government officials and civil society. Theyfounded the FT Global Commodities Summit, an annual conference which has become established as the pre-eminent gathering of the industry. This is their first book.

出版者:Random House Business

作者:Javier Blas

页数:416

出版时间:2021-2-25

价格:GBP 20.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781847942654

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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.

In The World for Sale, two leading journalists lift the lid on one of the least scrutinised corners of the world economy: the workings of 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 centres.

And it is the story of how some traders acquired untold political power, right under the noses of western regulators and politicians - helping Saddam Hussein to sell his oil, fuelling the Libyan rebel army during the Arab Spring, and funnelling cash to Vladimir Putin's Kremlin in spite of western

sanctions.

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.

读后感

清晨起床，打开天然气煎蛋，喝一碗温热的五谷粥，在阳光明媚的早上出门，给汽车加满油，看起来又是平凡得不值一提的一天。厨房里灶台上的天然气，餐桌上的五谷粥，汽车里燃烧的油，这些在生活中常见的东西，背后却存在着不为人熟知的大宗商品交易。 大宗商品交易仿佛离我们十分...  

交易的诞生在很大程度上促进了社会的发展，从最古老的以物换物的形式，到现在非常复杂的交易方式，人们都可以通过交易的方式来获得自己需要的物品或者服务。 最近我读了《交易的世界》这本书，这本书主要关注的是全球大宗商品交易巨头所建立的隐秘商业帝国。它们对地球上的重要...  

用户评价

A very good account of trading business

报道类文章的连载，有些部分有些啰嗦了。

希望有一天去伦敦办公室找偶像签名！

引人入胜

It’s intriguing, probably the best book I read about the merchandise trader.It’s like a black hole everyone knows it, the enormous profits but no one actually speak about it or even talk about openly, it’s the secrecy make me more attracted into the story.The Ukrainian thing, the oils and grains , definitely repeat again and make reach new pinnacle