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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Página 8
... sell a way of life. Consumer and durable goods made in America had to be part of a desirable lifestyle. They were essential accessories to what was known as the Ameri- can Dream: products skillfully publicized by feel-good Hollywood ...
... sell a way of life. Consumer and durable goods made in America had to be part of a desirable lifestyle. They were essential accessories to what was known as the Ameri- can Dream: products skillfully publicized by feel-good Hollywood ...
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... selling their bodies. Communist prostitutes catered primarily to foreigners, most of them businessmen, who ventured across the East-West divide. In the early 1980s, for example, in Budapest, men could meet prostitutes only in two ...
... selling their bodies. Communist prostitutes catered primarily to foreigners, most of them businessmen, who ventured across the East-West divide. In the early 1980s, for example, in Budapest, men could meet prostitutes only in two ...
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... sell books and films because . they make the middle class comfortable with its acceptance of " sex for sale . " Plenty of publishers and filmmakers remain eager to feed the suburban appetite for " amusing " fairytales about prostitution ...
... sell books and films because . they make the middle class comfortable with its acceptance of " sex for sale . " Plenty of publishers and filmmakers remain eager to feed the suburban appetite for " amusing " fairytales about prostitution ...
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... sell not only products but also a new lifestyle . The pimps of globalization altered middle - class morality and Slavic pros- titution and sex slaves became the accessories of a new , permissive culture , one in which sex can be sold ...
... sell not only products but also a new lifestyle . The pimps of globalization altered middle - class morality and Slavic pros- titution and sex slaves became the accessories of a new , permissive culture , one in which sex can be sold ...
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... selling functions. Cash in the form of rubles, however, had a real monetary value, primarily because rubles were exchanged and used in the black market to buy and sell hard currencies and to pur- chase any kind of product or service ...
... selling functions. Cash in the form of rubles, however, had a real monetary value, primarily because rubles were exchanged and used in the black market to buy and sell hard currencies and to pur- chase any kind of product or service ...
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...