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Brazillionaires

By Alex Cuadros

Brazillionaires

By Alex Cuadros

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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Wealth and power on the trail of the super-richIn 2012, Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista was the eighth richest man in the world, his $30bn fortune built on Brazil's incredible natural resources. By the middle of 2013 he had lost it all, engulfed in scandal.Brazillionaires is a fast-paced account of Batista's rise and fall: a story of helicopter flights, beach-front penthouses and high-speed car crashes. Along the way, it tells the parallel story of Brazil itself, a country caught in the cycle of boom and bust, renewed hope and dashed promise; a country where the hyper-rich are at the heart of the economy - and where their wealth can buy immense political power.Stefan Zweig said in 1941 that Brazil was the country of the future; Brazilians joke that it always will be. Today, rampant corruption and endemic inequality threaten to derail the new Brazilian Dream. The brazillionaires are the key to understanding that dream; through them Brazillionaires tells the story of their country's past, present and future.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2016-06-02
Publication Date:
2016-06-02
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1781253870
ISBN13:
9781781253878
Weight:
445 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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