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NoNonsense: The Money Crisis

How Bankers Grabbed Our Money - and How We Can Get it Back
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NoNonsense: The Money Crisis by Peter Stalker explores the history of money and the flaws in the modern financial system. It explains how bankers and speculators create risky financial structures that eventually collapse, leaving ordinary people to bear the consequences. The book traces the evolution of banking from its earliest days to complex instruments like collateralised debt obligations. It proposes practical solutions for building a fairer financial system, including necessary regulations and real-world examples.
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A history of money, an examination of what's gone wrong and the ideas which would put people back in charge.

Dedicated publicist. National print and online series relaunch. Email campaigns to 30,000 New Internationalist registered users. Email campaigns to academics. Extracts and author blogs on newint.org

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NoNonsense: The Money Crisis offers a history of money, examining what's gone wrong and exploring ideas to put people back in charge. Bankers and speculators may build castles in the air, but when they crash down, ordinary people are left to pick up the tab.

The book explains how we've made such a mess of our money system, starting from the earliest banks and extending to complex financial instruments like collateralised debt obligations. The author suggests a framework for a fairer financial world, detailing practical ideas, necessary regulations, and real-life examples.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780262413

Publisher: New Internationalist Publications Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 September 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: New Internationalist Publications Ltd

Edition: Second Edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 110.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 129g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Peter Stalker is a former co-editor of the New Internationalist who now works as a consultant to a number of UN agencies. He has written two books on migration for the International Labor Organization - The Work of Strangers: A Survey of International Labour Migration, and Workers without Frontiers: The impact of Globalization on International Migration.

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