PublishedSeven Stories Press, May 2008 |
ISBN9781741754780 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions23cm × 15.2cm × 2.2cm |
What do Eastern Europe's booming sex trade, America's subprime mortgage lending scandal, China's fake goods industry and celebrity philanthropy in Africa have in common? All over the world political upheaval, free trade, deregulated financial markets and the internet have created conditions in which unscrupulous entrepreneurs trade without restriction.
Rogue industries are being allowed to transmute into global empires. Napoleoni examines how the world is being reshaped by dark economic forces, creating victims out of millions of ordinary people whose lives have become trapped inside a fantasy world of consumerism.
