Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

by Antony Loewenstein

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784781185
• ISBN13: 9781784781187
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"