具体描述
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.
作者简介
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 Financial
Times 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. They
founded 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.
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读后感
最近有一本书在投资圈很火,《The World for Sale》。马上中文版也会出来了,名字叫《交易的世界》。这本书记录了一批大宗商品交易商(如Vitol、Glencore等)如何在全世界交易大宗商品,进而影响世界政治经济局势的故事。因为大宗商品的影响实在是太大,因此书中的故事也十分引...
读完了🥺🥺🥺打开了通向新世界的大门 内容上:信息量很大但很有条理,没有让我产生人名恐慌。较为全面地了解了大宗商品交易商的发展历程、工作方式和影响力。最后也难逃被美国制裁2333 写法上:我真的真的好爱美式非虚构写作呜呜,就是本纯纯门外汉+数学经济学笨蛋有感到...
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...
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...
用户评价
A very good story book about commodity trading and traders.
了解了嘉能可 托克 维多等这些大宗贸易商的故事。尽管政治并不是其根本目的,但大宗交易商是真的在推动历史节奏,是真的冒险家的游戏。最后一章,商品说到底还是美元计价,看看以后这些制裁会发展到什么程度吧
冷门选题领域,较丰富资料,一些洞见。
写得很好,按时间顺序挑选有重大意义的事件精写,虽然一个个事件独立,一会儿非洲,一会儿苏联解体,一会儿中国腾飞,一会儿中东,但前后有因果关系,串得到一起。非常喜欢其中两章讲述两代交易商如何站在时代潮头“年轻有为、挥斥方遒、杀伐决断、刀口舔血”的故事,也看得出,要赚钱,就要把自己身上的人味儿去掉,什么时候人味儿去干净了,什么时候就成巨富了,不仅是对别人,也是对自己,不要里子不要面子只看得见钱、机会、生意,才能成巨富。虽然他们这几代马塞马拉草原上狮子家族般野蛮残酷的交易商的高光时刻已经过去了,但野蛮残酷的商机和行当永远会有。
报道类文章的连载,有些部分有些啰嗦了。