الكازينو العالمي: كيف تُقامر وول ستريت بالناس والكوكب

How do remote, unregulated financial markets determine everything from food prices to energy and housing costs, and what can be done about it? The global money market, which exists in the offshore “shadow banking” system, contains financial assets worth $217 trillion, and operates outside the jurisdiction of any tax country. Asset managers, private equity firms, pension and sovereign wealth funds seize the world's savings to invest and manage them at their whims, with no accountability to politicians or the citizens who elect them. In this fascinating, easy-to-understand and insightful introduction to the murky world of globalized finance, Anne Pettifor links the activities of far-flung mobile financial markets to both the high-cost of living and climate crises. In a crazy global casino, bankers are gambling with our future. And when we pay the price, only a few economists understand what happened. The result is volatile, unpredictable and out-of-control speculation in global commodities, pensions, energy and housing. Pettifor asserts that societies and governments are capable of regaining control of the global financial system. We've done it before, and we can do it again. Indeed, it is absolutely necessary if we are to manage the twin threats of climate change and biosphere collapse.