Rogue Economics

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? With biopirates trolling the blood industry, fish-farming bandits ravaging the high seas, pornography developing virtually in Second Life, and games like World of Warcraft spawning online sweatshops, how are rogue industries transmuting into global empires? And will the entire system be transformed by the advent of sharia economics? With the precision of an economist and the narrative deftness of a storyteller, syndicated journalist Loretta 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. Napoleoni reveals the architecture of our world, and in doing so provides fresh insight into many of the most insoluble problems of our era.

“"Loretta Napoleoni's devilishly enjoyable journey into the money veins of the new global order--from sex slavery to fad-diet slavery ... is truly incredibly original." --Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy " Rogue Economics offers a fascinating view of how terribly wrong things have gone." --John Perkins, author of Confessions 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 of Freakonomics , and Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation , but much grimmer." -- Publishers Weekly”

“Loretta Napoleoni's devilishly enjoyable journey into the money veins of the new global order—from sex slavery to fad-diet slavery … is truly incredibly original.” —Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

“Rogue Economics offers a fascinating view of how terribly wrong things have gone.” —John Perkins, author of Confessions 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 of Freakonomics, and Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, but much grimmer.” —Publishers Weekly

"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, economist LORETTA NAPOLEONI has been an advisor to national governments while being one of the harshest of critics of the underlying principles and policies of the current world banking system. Napoleoni s books, including Rogue Economics- Capitalism's New Reality (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2008) and Terror Incorporated- Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism, have been international bestsellers and are translated into eighteen foreign languages. A longtime activist, a former Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School, a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics, and chair of the Club de Madrid countering terrorism financing group, Napoleoni has traveled widely in the Middle East and around the world. Her essays and columns have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, La Stampa, La Repubblica, El Pa s, and Le Monde. Her most recent book is Maonomics- How Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do."

Smart Pricing introduces innovative approaches to pricing, as well as the research and insights that went into their creation. Filled with illustrative examples from the business world, this book goes well beyond familiar approaches like cost-plus, buyer-based pricing, or competition-based pricing, and puts a wide variety of pricing mechanisms at your disposal. This book helps you understand them, choose them, and use them to win .

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