Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Loewenstein, Antony

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784781156)

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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Loewenstein, Antony

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

$26.95
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe by Loewenstein, Antony

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

$26.95
Format: Hardcover
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A "keenly observed and timely investigation" of how capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe--"a potent weapon for shock resistors around the world" (Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine)

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.

Author: Antony Loewenstein
ISBN-10: 1784781150
ISBN-13: 9781784781156
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 1.30d
By Antony Loewenstein
By Antony Loewenstein
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Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentary maker and blogger who has written for the BBC, the Nation and the 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. He is co-editor of After Zionism and Left Turn and co-writer of For God's Sake. His books have been translated, and his journalism has been a finalist in many global awards. He's currently working on a documentary about disaster capitalism.

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