Rogue EconomicsSeven Stories Press, 04/01/2011 - 336 páginas What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China’s fake goods industry, and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops, how are rogue industries transmuting into global empires? And will the entire system be transformed by the advent of sharia economics? With the precision of an economist and the narrative deftness of a storyteller, syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni examines how the world is being reshaped by dark economic forces, creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have become trapped inside a fantasy world of consumerism. Napoleoni reveals the architecture of our world, and in doing so provides fresh insight into many of the most insoluble problems of our era. |
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... China last Christmas and encouraged me to continue shap- ing my interpretation of Maoism . And thanks to all my readers who have provided information via the Web , people who read my work and feel compelled to help me . A special ...
... China last Christmas and encouraged me to continue shap- ing my interpretation of Maoism . And thanks to all my readers who have provided information via the Web , people who read my work and feel compelled to help me . A special ...
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... China , 1 leaving everywhere its indelible mark . As democracy spread , so did slavery . By the end of the decade , an estimated 27 million people had been enslaved in a number of countries , including some in Western Europe . As early ...
... China , 1 leaving everywhere its indelible mark . As democracy spread , so did slavery . By the end of the decade , an estimated 27 million people had been enslaved in a number of countries , including some in Western Europe . As early ...
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... China . Accountancy , medical diagnostics , and information technology are also beginning to be relocated to China . Indus- trialized economies are losing their monopoly in research , innovation , and technology . وو Economists have ...
... China . Accountancy , medical diagnostics , and information technology are also beginning to be relocated to China . Indus- trialized economies are losing their monopoly in research , innovation , and technology . وو Economists have ...
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... China and the United States . The US is the largest recipient of Chinese exports , but instead of trading its goods back to China , the US exports its debt . The system is simple . A river of dollars flows from America to China ...
... China and the United States . The US is the largest recipient of Chinese exports , but instead of trading its goods back to China , the US exports its debt . The system is simple . A river of dollars flows from America to China ...
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... China may damage world trade. So far, China's comparative advantage, its cheap merchandise, has been matched by America's comparative advantage: con- sumption. This voracious spending ranges from the American middle class's pathological ...
... China may damage world trade. So far, China's comparative advantage, its cheap merchandise, has been matched by America's comparative advantage: con- sumption. This voracious spending ranges from the American middle class's pathological ...
Índice
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CHAPTER FOUR | 81 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 105 |
CHAPTER | 121 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 141 |
Anarchy at | 165 |
CHAPTER NINE | 189 |
CHAPTER | 207 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 217 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 237 |
EPILOGUE | 263 |
NOTES | 269 |
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Página 28 - Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular administration of justice, in which the people do not feel themselves secure in the possession of their property...
Página 208 - In all critical moments of man's social life, the rational forces that resist the rise of the old mythical conceptions are no longer sure of themselves. In these moments the time for myth has come again. For myth has not been really vanquished and subjugated. It is always there, lurking in the dark and waiting for its hour and opportunity. This hour comes as soon as the other binding forces of man's social life, for one reason or another, lose their strength and are no longer able to combat the demonic...
Página 107 - Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an object at very close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction.
Página 258 - Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application. Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society...
Página 31 - I place economy among the first and most Important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared...