Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe - Softcover

Loewenstein, Antony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784781185 ISBN 13: 9781784781187

Publisher: Verso Books, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Antony Loewenstein is an independent Australian journalist, documentary maker and blogger who has written for the BBC, the Nation and the Washington Post. He's a weekly Guardian columnist and the author of three best-selling books, My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution and Profits of Doom: How Vulture Capitalism is Swallowing the World. He is co-editor of After Zionism and Left Turn and co-writer of For God's Sake. His books have been translated, and his journalism has been a finalist in many global awards. He's currently working on a documentary about disaster capitalism. His website can be found at: http://antonyloewenstein.com; and Twitter: @antloewenstein

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784781185
• ISBN 13: 9781784781187
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384