Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

by Michael Lewis

Book Overview

The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.

Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393081818
• ISBN13: 9780393081817
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.5"