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A Banquet of Consequences by Satyajit DAS
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Essential reading for anyone interested in the future of the global economy and their own prospects, A Banquet of Consequences incisively explains the problems confronting us, how we're making those problems worse, and what the real solutions are. For ordinary individuals, the goal of a steady job, a ho ...Show more
A Banquet of Consequences, Reloaded: How we got into the mess we're in, and why we need to act now by Satyajit Das
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Essential reading for anyone concerned about the dire future of the global economy, the deepening environmental crisis the alarming deterioration of our social fabric, A Banquet of Consequences incisively explains the problems confronting us, how we're making those problems worse, and what the real solu ...Show more
Extreme Money by Satyajit Das
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Once, we built things - useful things. Now, we construct immense financial structures from thin air and lies. We have crafted a colossal worldwide financial machine that makes a few individuals staggeringly wealthy and sacrifices everyone else at its altar of risk. Bestselling author Satyajit Das draws ...Show more
Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Extreme money is money made endless, capable of infinite multiplication, completely unreal. It changed everything, individual life, business, even countries. At the heart of this new economy, voodoo banking increases bankers' profits. The Masters of the Universe and their cult of risk dominate economies ...Show more
Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Extreme money is money made endless, capable of infinite multiplication, completely unreal. It changed everything, individual life, business, even countries. At the heart of this new economy, voodoo banking increases bankers' profits. The Masters of the Universe and their cult of risk dominate economies ...Show more
Fortune's Fool: Australia's Choices by Satyajit Das
Category: History | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Australia’s prosperity relies on the continent’s extraordinary natural — primarily mineral — riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical and societal pressures now threaten the nation’s high living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of many trials to come. La ...Show more
In Search of the Pangolin - Eco-Travel Tales by Satyajit Das & Jade Novakovic
Category: Travel Literature
A pangolin is an obscure species of scaly anteater. Prehistoric in appearance, it is about the size of a cat with a long tail, and is covered in large yellowish-brown scales. In Search of the Pangolin is a unique potted travel narrative focused on eco-tourism, from the point of view of two eco-tourist ...Show more
The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril by Das Satyajit
Category: Culture
The global economy is entering an era of protracted stagnation, similar to what Japan has experienced for over a decade.That is the message of this brilliant and controversial summary of our current economic predicament from an internationally respected consultant and commentator on financial markets, w ...Show more
Traders, Guns and Money by Satyajit Das
Category: Business Finance Management
I had been in derivatives for over 25 years. Many traders hadn't been born when I stumbled accidentally into the arcane world of derivatives trading. The Indonesians were at the fag end of that career. How did I get there? I had followed the money. I had ridden the tide and currents of financial markets ...Show more
Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives by Satyajit Das
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Financial Times Series
A sensational and compelling insider's view that lifts the lid on the fast-paced and dazzling world of derivatives, now in a smaller, paperback format. Traders Guns and Money is a wickedly comic expose of the culture, games and pure deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around the world. And ...Show more
Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives by Satyajit Das
Category: Business | Series: Financial Times Series
a distinctly timely book ...Traders, Guns and Money, tries to reach out to the mathematically challenged to explain how the world of derivatives really works.' Gillian Tett, Financial Time ...a scalpel of a book that pulls back the skin on the derivatives and risk management industry to expose the blo ...Show more
Wild Quests: Journeys into Ecotourism and the Future for Animals by Satyajit Das
Category: Science
An interrogation of ecotourism, a celebration of animals and an impassioned call for the need to protect our natural world Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and the Antarctic, profoundly changed Satyajit Das’s life. Ecotourism — watching wildlife in nature — became his gravitati ...Show more
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