Brazillionaires

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-rich In 2012, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the world, his $30bn fortune built on Brazil's incredible natural resources. By the middle of 2013 he had lost it all, engulfed in scandal. Brazillionaires is a fast-paced account of Batista's rise and fall: a story of helicopter flights, beach-front penthouses and high-speed car crashes. Along the way, it tells the parallel story of Brazil itself, a country caught in the cycle of boom and bust, renewed hope and dashed promise; a country where the hyper-rich are at the heart of the economy - and where their wealth can buy immense political power. Stefan Zweig said in 1941 that Brazil was the country of the future; Brazilians joke that it always will be. Today, rampant corruption and endemic inequality threaten to derail the new Brazilian Dream. The brazillionaires are the key to understanding that dream; through them Brazillionaires tells the story of their country's past, present and future.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Cuadros, Cuadros Alex
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2016
• EAN: 9781781253878
• ISBN: 978-1-78125-387-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Brazil, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, Travel writing, Political corruption, International Economics, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime