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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... million people had been enslaved in a number of countries , including some in Western Europe . As early as 1990 , Slavic sex slaves from the former Soviet Bloc began flooding Western markets . These women proved beau- tiful , cheap ...
... million people had been enslaved in a number of countries , including some in Western Europe . As early as 1990 , Slavic sex slaves from the former Soviet Bloc began flooding Western markets . These women proved beau- tiful , cheap ...
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... million Israelis visit a prostitute every month.15 According to the Israeli Par- liamentary Inquiry Committee, “[S]ome 3,000 to 5,000 women [from the former Soviet Bloc] are smuggled to Israel annually and sold into the prostitution ...
... million Israelis visit a prostitute every month.15 According to the Israeli Par- liamentary Inquiry Committee, “[S]ome 3,000 to 5,000 women [from the former Soviet Bloc] are smuggled to Israel annually and sold into the prostitution ...
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... million—has already been entertained,” stated the Sunday Times.22 Nobody wants to miss out on the fun; everybody wants to be part of the new game in town. “Once there was a guest who came in and asked for a show to be performed by a ...
... million—has already been entertained,” stated the Sunday Times.22 Nobody wants to miss out on the fun; everybody wants to be part of the new game in town. “Once there was a guest who came in and asked for a show to be performed by a ...
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... million , a fraction of its value . The magnitude of the bargain became apparent only in 2003 , when Russian prosecutors froze 44 percent of Yukos ' assets , equivalent to $ 10 billion . ROVING BANDITS VERSUS STATIONARY BANDITS The late ...
... million , a fraction of its value . The magnitude of the bargain became apparent only in 2003 , when Russian prosecutors froze 44 percent of Yukos ' assets , equivalent to $ 10 billion . ROVING BANDITS VERSUS STATIONARY BANDITS The late ...
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... million to $2 trillion, equivalent to about 3 percent of the world's economy. By 2006, Americans' outstanding debt was three times the country's GDP. Strained by debt repay- ment, people like the Joneses resorted to revolving accounts ...
... million to $2 trillion, equivalent to about 3 percent of the world's economy. By 2006, Americans' outstanding debt was three times the country's GDP. Strained by debt repay- ment, people like the Joneses resorted to revolving accounts ...
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...