Boomerang
Viajes al nuevo tercer mundo europeo
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5.0 • 3 calificaciones
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- $149.00
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- $149.00
Descripción editorial
Michael Lewis le da una vuelta de tuerca a la crisis y se sitúa en los escenarios europeos donde más se ha notado la hecatombe financiera. Con su particular estilo, cargado de fina ironía y ácido sentido del humor, Lewis narra cómo la tragedia de la crisis ha golpeado a Islandia, Grecia o Irlanda, países a los que visita y en los que entrevista a sus banqueros y políticos, pero también a sus ciudadanos de a pie, quienes le explican cómo han vivido unos años que marcarán sus vidas para siempre, pues pertenecen al nuevo tercer mundo europeo.
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Essentially an offbeat travelogue, Lewis's latest examines the recent global financial crisis by visiting the locales that have faltered beyond reasonable expectation. Though journalistic, there is a distinctly anthropological approach to vivid depictions of how particular cultural values contributed to such a bizarre, devastating series of events. In his dynamic narrative, Lewis simplifies complex financial systems without condescension, applies a degree of rationality to absurd decisions, and presents key individuals' profiles without denigration. Dark, deadpan humor is injected throughout: Iceland as a nation of fishermen-cum-hedge fund managers with "no idea what they were doing ; Greece's "fantastic mess of scandalous monasteries, tax-evasion and top-down corruption; Ireland's busted banks and stratospheric losses debilitating a now "distinctly third world country. Germany is singled-out for its "preternatural love of rules and naivet regarding the so-called "riskless asset while California tops the list of "America's scariest financial places following their ratings downgrade and piling debts. Easily devoured in one sitting, Lewis (Moneyball) manages to gracefully explain what happened with a unique regard for both the strengths and weaknesses of humankind.
