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The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy.
Random House Business, 410 pp., £20, February,978 1 84794 265 4 Show More
by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy.
Random House Business, 410 pp., £20, February,
“... were not political. This seems to be the mantra of the titans of commodity trading interviewed by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy: ‘We are just here for the money; we are not doing politics.’ I suppose it all depends on what you take ‘politics’ to mean.The origin myth of today’s commodity trades goes back to the era of decolonisation. But they can ... ”