Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash through the Global Economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back.(Review) (book review)

Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash through the Global Economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back, by Barbara Garson Viking, 342 pages, $24.95

BARBARA GARSON WRITES about global capitalism using a technique long popular in consumer reporting. Like journalists in the 1970s who tried to explain the rising price of steak by tracing the profits of cattlemen, packinghouses, and grocery stores, Garson follows a money trail. She takes $29,500, which amounts to half of her book advance, deposits it in a small bank in Millbrook, New York, and then seeks to ...

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