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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... major historical transitions; its spread has contaminated ancient economies, destroyed old empires, and built new ones. While the discovery of America enriched Europe beyond imagination, the spoils came at the hands of ruthless ...
... major historical transitions; its spread has contaminated ancient economies, destroyed old empires, and built new ones. While the discovery of America enriched Europe beyond imagination, the spoils came at the hands of ruthless ...
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... major civilizations rested on solid commercial structures that politicians defended with large armies; Rome crushed Carthage when Hannibal blocked its flourishing trade with the northern regions of the Italian peninsula. Endless wars ...
... major civilizations rested on solid commercial structures that politicians defended with large armies; Rome crushed Carthage when Hannibal blocked its flourishing trade with the northern regions of the Italian peninsula. Endless wars ...
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... major changes in morality, the extraordinary growth in the global supply of Slavic prostitutes and sex slaves could never have been matched by an equally remarkable international demand. Today, modern globalized society tac- itly ...
... major changes in morality, the extraordinary growth in the global supply of Slavic prostitutes and sex slaves could never have been matched by an equally remarkable international demand. Today, modern globalized society tac- itly ...
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... major economic transformations. The entry of the former Soviet Bloc into global capitalism saw a political system dismantled without a clear plan for its replacement. Thus entire nations plunged into deep poverty and political anarchy ...
... major economic transformations. The entry of the former Soviet Bloc into global capitalism saw a political system dismantled without a clear plan for its replacement. Thus entire nations plunged into deep poverty and political anarchy ...
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... major turn in 1992, when President Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia was about to become a stake- holder society. The wealth of the nation was going to be divided, like a cake, into three parts: one part to the state, which would ...
... major turn in 1992, when President Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia was about to become a stake- holder society. The wealth of the nation was going to be divided, like a cake, into three parts: one part to the state, which would ...
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...