Description or summary of the book: Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav-els 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 or-ganized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. What emerges through Loewenstein's re-porting is a dark history of multinational corpo-rations 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 valu-able commodity.
Estimated reading time (average reader): 23H34M24S
Other categories, genre or collection: Multinationals, Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy, Aid & Relief Programmes, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Human Rights, Political Corruption
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