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Disaster Capitalism
Antony Loewenstein
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Description for Disaster Capitalism
Hardcover. Crisis, what crisis? How governments and corporations profit from disaster Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 35. Weight in Grams: 694.
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 such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining.
Disaster has become big business. Talking to immigrants stuck in limbo in Britain or visiting immigration centers in America, Loewenstein maps the secret networks formed to help corporations bleed what profits they can ... Read more
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 such as G4S, Serco, and Halliburton cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining.
Disaster has become big business. Talking to immigrants stuck in limbo in Britain or visiting immigration centers in America, Loewenstein maps the secret networks formed to help corporations bleed what profits they can ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Verso
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784781156
SKU
V9781784781156
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Antony Loewenstein
Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentarian and blogger who has written for the BBC, Nation, Washington Post. He's a weekly Guardian columnist and the author of three best-selling books, My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World, co-editor of After Zionism and Left Turn and co-writer of For God's ... Read more
Reviews for Disaster Capitalism
The forces of disaster capitalism are increasingly on the defensive, but their attacks on the global commons have expanded in the years since I wrote The Shock Doctrine. I am very grateful that Antony Loewenstein has brought his meticulous reporting to this subject, and the result is a keenly observed and timely investigation into rampant ... Read more