Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das is a part-history/part-analysis of financial business practices which led to the most recent economic crisis, free courtesy of publisher FT Press.
The Product Description says it has been nominated for several Best Business Book of the Year awards in a number of prominent venues and quotes praise from The Economist, among others.
Currently free @
Amazon UK, will likely drop in the
main store and probably show up at B&N as well.
Description
The human race created money and finance: then, our inventions recreated us. In Extreme Money, best-selling author and global finance expert Satyajit Das tells how this happened and what it means. Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that are generating increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, prosperity, and wealth--while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside finance.