Disaster Capitalism

Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

von Antony Loewenstein

384 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 corpo­rations 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 valu­able commodity.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Korruption in Politik, Regierung und Gesellschaft
• ISBN: 9781784781187
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.01.2017
• Größe: 198 x 128 mm
• Verlag: Verso