How Long to Read Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

How Long Does it Take to Read Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 54 minutes to read Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Charles Lipson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Foreign investors are drawn abroad by the lure of profits, but they also face significant risks. Standing Guard examines how investors coped with these risks and protected their capital abroad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Toward the end of the twentieth century, less-developed countries, determined to control their own economic development, nationalized their most lucrative oil fields and mineral concessions and regulated all forms of foreign investment. While some firms were hard hit, many others adapted profitably to this new political environment. They rearranged their assets...

How long is Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries?

Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Charles Lipson is 352 pages long, and a total of 88,704 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 4 minutes to read Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries aloud.

What Reading Level is Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries?

Standing Guard - Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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