Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to pay for them. The author deals with the subject of [...]
This is the shocking story of how a continent succumbed to temptation and took leave of its senses. Greek monks became playboy financiers. Icelandic fishermen became investment bankers. And Germans became even more German. Then, the money ran out. In this tragicomic romp [...]
This is the shocking story of how a continent succumbed to temptation and took leave of its senses. Greek monks became playboy financiers. Icelandic fishermen became investment bankers. And Germans became even more German. Then, the money ran out. In this tragicomic romp [...]
Englisch; Fester Einband
Erschienen: 27.08.2012 / Lieferfrist: 1-3 Wochen (kurzfristig nicht lieferbar)
Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.
The cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. This title presents a [...]
Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
Englisch; Fester Einband
Erschienen: 2013 / Lieferfrist: mind. 4 Wochen (Titel wird speziell besorgt)
Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
Presents the author's darkly humorous investigation of the effects of the 2008 financial bubble on other countries before taking aim at greedy debtors in California and Washington, D.C.
Englisch; Taschenbuch
Erschienen: Oktober 2011 / Lieferfrist: 3-5 Wochen (Titel wird speziell besorgt)
Time for a SEE Change - Social, Ecological and Economic strategies for life after growth.
Englisch; Taschenbuch
Erschienen: 2012 / Lieferfrist: 3-5 Wochen (Titel wird speziell besorgt)
Englisch; Taschenbuch
Erschienen: 2012 / Lieferfrist: 3-5 Wochen (Titel wird speziell besorgt)
Englisch; Taschenbuch
Erschienen: 13.03.2013 / Lieferfrist: 1-2 Wochen (Titel wird auf Bestellung gedruckt)
From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, this title tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing.
From mere trainee, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. This [...]