Description
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.
Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/04/2012
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.56w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9780393343441
ISBN10: 0393343448
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Economic Conditions
- Business & Economics | International | Economics & Trade