The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance. Peter Stalker

Sets recent events in the context of history. Shows how flows of money directed by an unaccountable elite increasingly shape economic, political and social activity. It also includes chapters on global currency exchange, alternative systems of banking, including microfinance, government regulation or lack of it, international institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, and a final chapter on ways of bringing global finance under control. An extremely relevant topic for today's economic climate