The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance

An incisive introduction to global finance-the current mechanisms and the need for control and reform.

About the author

Peter Stalker is a former co-editor of the New Internationalist who now works as a consultant to a number of UN agencies. He has written two books on migration for the International Labor Organization. They are The Work of Strangers: A Survey of International Labor Migration and Workers without Frontiers: The Impact of Globalization on International Migration.

Summary

Explains the basic concepts of finance - how money is created, and how decisions by banking and other financial service corporations are determining the fate of billions of people. This book traces the origins of money, as a source of exchange and a store of value, and the many weird and wonderful forms it takes - visible and invisible.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Stalker, Stalker Peter
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2025
• EAN: 9781906523183
• ISBN: 978-1-906523-18-3
• Weight: 173 g
• Series: No-nonsense Guides
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, International Economics, International Finance, Finance and the finance industry