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Disaster capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe

By Antony , Loewenstein

Book information

Publisher
Verso Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9781784781156, 9781784781163, 9781784781170, 1784781150, 1784781169, 1784781177, 9781784781187, 1784781185
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
709 kB (726218 bytes)
Pages
376 pages ; 24 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Corporate power;International business enterprises

Description

"Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disaster Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism--the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain's immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites"--

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