Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market SystemJohn Wiley & Sons, 05/08/2005 - 450 páginas For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism’s Achilles Heel, Baker takes readers on a fascinating journey through the global free-market system and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined. Readers will discover how small illicit transactions lead to massive illegalities and how staggering global income disparities are worsened by the illegalities that permeate international capitalism. Drawing on his experiences, Baker shows how Western banks and businesses use secret transactions and ignore laws while handling some $1 trillion in illicit proceeds each year. He also illustrates how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds and how these tactics negatively affect individuals, institutions, and countries. |
Índice
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Chapter 4 MAGNITUDES AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS | 162 |
Part II INEQUALITY THE GAP MATTERS | 207 |
Chapter 5 THE GLOBAL DIVIDE | 210 |
Chapter 6 I DONT UNDERSTAND AND DONT TELL ANYONE | 240 |
Chapter 9 THE JOYS OF JEREMY BENTHAM | 300 |
Chapter 10 PHILOSOPHY BECOMES CULTURE | 312 |
Part IV RUN IT RIGHT TRUST THE SYSTEM | 333 |
Chapter 11 CAPITALISMS ACHILLES HEEL | 337 |
Chapter 12 SPREADING PROSPERITY | 342 |
Chapter 13 RENEWING CAPITALISM | 368 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 377 |
Notes | 383 |
Chapter 7 IT S THE 70 TO 90 PERCENT THAT MATTERS | 262 |
Part III DISUTILITY BENTHAM KOs SMITH | 279 |
Chapter 8 THE ANGUISH OF ADAM SMITH | 282 |
INDEX | 425 |
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 287 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our oWn industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 196 - If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose...
Página 285 - And hence it is, that to feel much for others, and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent, affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.
Página 284 - It is reason, principle, conscience, the inhabitant of the breast, the man within, the great judge and arbiter of our conduct.
Página 285 - THIS disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
Página 284 - When he views himself in the light in which he is conscious that others will view him, he sees that to them he is but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
Página 281 - He had been carried by his mother to Strathenry, on a visit to his uncle, Mr. Douglas, and was one day amusing himself alone at the door of the house, when he was stolen by a party of that set of vagrants who are known in Scotland by the name of tinkers. Luckily he was soon missed by his uncle, who, hearing that some vagrants had passed, pursued them, with what assistance he could find, till he overtook them in Leslie Wood ; and was the happy instrument of preserving to the world a genius which was...
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