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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... ing industry to counterfeit - producing factories , as I found again and again during my research , slaves have become an integral part of global capitalism . 1 Shockingly , in modern times , democracy and slavery coex- INTRODUCTION.
... ing industry to counterfeit - producing factories , as I found again and again during my research , slaves have become an integral part of global capitalism . 1 Shockingly , in modern times , democracy and slavery coex- INTRODUCTION.
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... become apparent in the 1950s , during the process of decolonization . As former colonies gained inde- pendence from foreign powers and embraced freedom , the number of slaves soared and their cost plummeted . Today , the average price ...
... become apparent in the 1950s , during the process of decolonization . As former colonies gained inde- pendence from foreign powers and embraced freedom , the number of slaves soared and their cost plummeted . Today , the average price ...
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... become skinny, they actually put on weight. The battle of the bulge brought the advent of low-fat diets. Fat was removed from food items and substituted with car- bohydrates, which are high in calories and also produce fat. Farmers have ...
... become skinny, they actually put on weight. The battle of the bulge brought the advent of low-fat diets. Fat was removed from food items and substituted with car- bohydrates, which are high in calories and also produce fat. Farmers have ...
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... become virtually nonexistent. Though the practice was not banned, governments usually marginalized the world's oldest profession. Demand was low. Sexual habits were extremely liberal, and contraception and abortion were readily ...
... become virtually nonexistent. Though the practice was not banned, governments usually marginalized the world's oldest profession. Demand was low. Sexual habits were extremely liberal, and contraception and abortion were readily ...
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... become more international. Many women come from Poland and Russia, but they all speak German, because we want all of them to do so. Customers today are not only looking for sex, they also want a girl who can talk to them and create an ...
... become more international. Many women come from Poland and Russia, but they all speak German, because we want all of them to do so. Customers today are not only looking for sex, they also want a girl who can talk to them and create an ...
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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...