A Splendid Exchange

Resumen del libro

Few historical enquiries can tell us as much about the world we live in today as the story of the origins and development of world trade.

A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to the firestorm over globalization today, from the silk route between China and Rome in the second century to the rise and fall of the Portuguese monopoly in spices in the sixteenth. Along the way, William Bernstein examines how our age-old dependency on trade has contributed to our planet's agricultural bounty, stimulated intellectual and industrial progress, and made us both prosperous and vulnerable.

Biografía del autor

William Bernstein es un inversor, neurólogo y autor reconocido por su enfoque analítico en el mundo de las finanzas. Gracias a su formación científica, ha aplicado el rigor del pensamiento estructurado a la inversión y desafiado las costumbres de Wall Street. Con sus libros y escritos ha ayudado a los inversores a tomar decisiones fundamentadas en la historia económica y la gestión del riesgo.