Rogue Economics

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Respected economist and journalist Loretta Napoleoni shows 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. A world built by organisations both private and public which have accumulated vast fortunes and enormous political influence by regulating, containing and manipulating the market to their own advantage.

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Loretta Napoleoni's devilishly enjoyable journey into the money veins of the new global orderfrom sex slavery to fad-diet slavery is truly incredibly original.Greg Palast, author ofThe Best Democracy Money Can Buy

Rogue Economicsoffers a fascinating view of how terribly wrong things have gone.John Perkins, author ofConfessions of an Economic Hit Man

Timely and fascinating, Napoleoni's top-notch reporting, in which her attention turns from Viagra to blood diamonds to the banana price wars in a few pages, works in the vein ofFreakonomics, and Eric Schlosser'sFast Food Nation, but much grimmer. Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal, LORETTA NAPOLEONI was born in 1955 in Rome. In the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement in Italy, and later studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins Universitys Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career as an economist, and went on to work as London correspondent and columnist for La Stampa, La Repubblica and La Pas. Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellers Rogue Economics: Capitalisms New Reality and Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. She has served as the Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, and lectures regularly around the world on economics, money laundering and terrorism. Napoleoni lives in London and Montana.