by Antony Loewenstein - £9.99 Verso Books (2017)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781784781187 | ISBN 10: 1784781185
How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe.
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.
(Price & availability last checked: February 2017)
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