Paper Promises : Debt, Money, and the New World Order

English

ISBN: 1610391268

EAN: 9781610391269

Category: Business & Economics / International / Economics/Business & Economics / Finance/Business & Economics / Money & Monetary Policy/

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Release Date: 02/29/2012

Synopsis: For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a time-worn place in our economic history. As with the crises in the 1930s and 1970s, governments will fall, currencies will lose their value, and new systems will emerge. Just as Britain set the terms of the international system in the nineteenth century, and America in the twentieth century, a new system will be set by todays creditors in China and the Middle East. In the process, rich will be pitted against poor, young against old, public sector workers against taxpayers and one country against another. In Paper Promises, Economist columnist Philip Coggan helps us to understand the origins of this mess and how it will affect the new global economy by explaining how our attitudes towards debt have changed throughout history, and how they may be about to change again.

Paper Promises : Debt, Money, and the New World Order

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.01 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 17.04 oz

Pages: 304