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Extreme Economies - Survival, Failure, Future - Lessons from the World's Limits (Hardcover)
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Extreme Economies - Survival, Failure, Future - Lessons from the World's Limits (Hardcover)
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*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019* *Winner of Debut
Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards
2020* *Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business
Book of the Year Award 2019* 'Extreme Economies is a revelation -
and a must-read.' Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of
England To understand how humans react and adapt to economic change
we need to study people who live in harsh environments. From
death-row prisoners trading in institutions where money is banned
to flourishing entrepreneurs in the world's largest refugee camp,
from the unrealised potential of cities like Kinshasa to the
hyper-modern economy of Estonia, every life in this book has been
hit by a seismic shock, violently broken or changed in some way. In
his quest for a purer view of how economies succeed and fail,
Richard Davies takes the reader off the beaten path to places where
part of the economy has been repressed, removed, destroyed or
turbocharged. He tells the personal stories of humans living in
these extreme situations, and of the financial infrastructure they
create. Far from the familiar stock reports, housing crises, or
banking scandals of the financial pages, Extreme Economies reveals
the importance of human and social capital, and in so doing tells
small stories that shed light on today's biggest economic
questions. 'A highly original approach to understanding what really
makes economies tick.' Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of
England
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