Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe Contributor(s): Loewenstein, Antony (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784781185 ISBN-13: 9781784781187 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - Political Science | Commentary & Opinion - Political Science | Corruption & Misconduct |
Dewey: 306.3 |
LCCN: 2015017204 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.90 lbs) 384 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. What emerges through Loewenstein's reporting is a dark history of multinational corpoarations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valuaable commodity. |