

I.O.U.
Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay
Author: John Lanchester
Narrator: James Langton
Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 01/18/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Synopsis
Accessibly, cleverly, and with mordant humor, journalist John Lanchester trots the globe in search of the answers to these questions—to Iceland, the scene of catastrophic bank collapse; to Hong Kong, the city of his birth built at the altar of free-market capitalism; to the high-stakes leveraging of Wall Street; and to the tragedy of lost homes in small-town America. And in his capable hands, we see and understand what went wrong and why.
Lanchester believes that the current crisis gives us an opportunity to bring about much-needed change and that a stronger and more compassionate system can emerge from the wreckage.