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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

By Antony Loewenstein

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2017
ISBN
1784781185, 9781784781187
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1256041 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
384\0
Time added
2018-07-02 17:59:57
Human Rights;Constitutional Law;Law;Radicalism;Ide

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.

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