Overexposed - U.s. Banks Confront the Third World Debt Crisis

About the author

Raúl L. Madrid is currently a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica. He was formerly a foreign affairs analyst with the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of which he wrote Overexposed. Madrid is coauthor of U.S. Arms Exports: Policies and Contractors, a book on U.S. arms transfer policy, and he has written numerous articles and reports on related foreign policy issues.

Summary

Raúl Madrid's Overexposed represents the first in-depth study of the involvement of U.S. banks in the Third World debt crisis. Based on extensive interviews with commercial bankers, the book examines the decision-making process at U.S. banks that led to the lending boom of the 1970s and early 1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Raul L. Madrid, Raúl L. Madrid, Madrid Raul L.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367282080
• ISBN: 978-0-367-28208-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government