Smick, David M.

The world is curved : hidden dangers to the global economy / David M. Smick. - New York, N.Y. : Portfolio, c2008. - 305 p. ; 24 cm.

The end of the world -- A dangerous ocean of money -- Entrepreneurs in a world of private equity and hedge fund troublemakers -- Tony Soprano rides the Chinese dragon -- Japanese housewives take the commanding heights -- Nothing stays the same : the 1992 sterling crisis -- The incredible shrinking central banks -- Class warfare and the politics of globalization -- Surviving and prospering in this age of volatility.

9781591842187 (hbk.)


International finance.
Financial crises.
Globalization--Economic aspects.
International economic relations.