Rogue Economics

Authors: Napoleoni, Loretta
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
BISAC/Subject: BUS023000, BUS069020, POL033000
ISBN: 9781583229941, Related ISBNs: 1583228241, 1583228829, 1583229949, 9781583228241, 9781583228821
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 336,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: 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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