Frontier - diskuze

Emerging markets have been promoted byfi nanciers since the late 1980s. The idea wascorrect: these economies have delivered overthree quarters of global growth. Yet the longyears of hopeful fanfare, false dawns andwoeful returns have proven that bankrollingthe end of history was easier said thandone. For some, stunning fi nancial coups; formany, catastrophic losses; for all, an odysseyfrom which none would return unaltered.Frontier is the epic account of fortunes andfriendships made and destroyed at the turbulentevent horizon of capitalism, as thesmart Western money ventured beyond thecrumbling Berlin Wall. But three decades on,mystifi ed by our clinical, disconnected ways,the countries of the East and global Southare turning elsewhere for the capital theydesperately need. Amidst the roiling dramaof the emerging markets lies the answer tothe one question few going eastward everthought to ask: who really are the extraordinarypeoples building new countries at thefrontier of capitalism – and what do theywant.
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