World for Sale

Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award<br>An <em>Economist </em>Book of the Year <p/>The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones. <p/>We rarely stop to consider where they have come from. But we should. <p/><em>The World for Sale</em> lifts the lid on one of the least scrutinized corners of the world economy: the billionaire commodity traders who buy hoard and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets enabling an enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world's financial centers. The result is an eye-opening tour through the wildest frontiers of the global economy as well as a revelatory guide to how capitalism really works.