Chasing Mammon: Travels in the Pursuit of Money

by Douglas Kennedy (Author)

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  Paperback
  1993

  $3.25

  This book takes the reader on a journey through the gladitorial realms of high finance - from the Sydney futures market and the Singapore money markets to the Casablanca bourse and the first Hungarian stock exchange to operate since 1948. Wall Street and the City of London complete the picture. It looks at what makes financial institutions work, what money actually means in a given society and how to use it to justify existence. The book includes accounts of meetings and encounters with various characters and accounts of unusual events in the financial world. Douglas Kennedy is the author of Beyond the Pyramids: Travel in Egypt and In God's Country: Travels in the Bible Belt .

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  Money as a weapon. Money as revenge. Money as a substitute for sex and love. Money as status. This travel book explores the uses of money and the attitudes of the wheelers and dealers in the international marketplace. Douglas Kennedy spent a year loitering with intent in six very disparate financial realms, including the Casablanca bourse (where stocks and bonds are listed on a blackboard), the squeaky-clean Singapore money markets, the Sydney futures market and the first Hungarian stock exchange to open since 1948. From the New Age City folk in London, unsure whether greed really is good for you, to the tireless toilers of Wall Street, Kennedy's encounters with money-makers around the globe offer a quirky journey through the modern cash nexus.