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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... cost plummeted . Today , the average price of a slave is less than one - tenth of its value dur- ing the Roman Empire , a time in history when democracy may well have been at its lowest ebb . To the Romans , slaves represented scarce ...
... cost plummeted . Today , the average price of a slave is less than one - tenth of its value dur- ing the Roman Empire , a time in history when democracy may well have been at its lowest ebb . To the Romans , slaves represented scarce ...
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... costs , they outsourced jobs and relocated production abroad . " Western workers saw jobs dis- appear under their noses , " summarized an Italian trade unionist . Foreign competition was so ruthless that to secure employment , workers ...
... costs , they outsourced jobs and relocated production abroad . " Western workers saw jobs dis- appear under their noses , " summarized an Italian trade unionist . Foreign competition was so ruthless that to secure employment , workers ...
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... cost less and by abandoning production of those that cost more in compari- son to other countries . Ricardo used the example of 34 ROGUE ECONOMICS.
... cost less and by abandoning production of those that cost more in compari- son to other countries . Ricardo used the example of 34 ROGUE ECONOMICS.
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... cost labor , ” a formula pioneered by China , explains President Reagan's former Assistant Treasury Secretary , Paul Craig Roberts . 10 China's overwhelming and unchallenged absolute advantage revolves around an endless supply of cheap ...
... cost labor , ” a formula pioneered by China , explains President Reagan's former Assistant Treasury Secretary , Paul Craig Roberts . 10 China's overwhelming and unchallenged absolute advantage revolves around an endless supply of cheap ...
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... costs because their social wages, i.e. ben- efits, have disappeared. A large percentage of any family's income goes to meet mortgage payments for expensive houses located in a declining number of good school districts; another portion ...
... costs because their social wages, i.e. ben- efits, have disappeared. A large percentage of any family's income goes to meet mortgage payments for expensive houses located in a declining number of good school districts; another portion ...
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...