ROGUE ECONOMICS
Capitalism’s New Reality
“Rogue Economics offers a fascinating view of how terribly wrong things have gone. Loretta Napoleoni’s book is an alarm, warning us to wake up immediately and head down a new path.” –John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man It was called “The Freedom Bug.” In the early 1990’s church bells rang while the Iron Curtain came down across Europe. In less than a decade the number of democratic countries went from 69 to 118. As democracy spread, so did slavery. Within two decades, politics has lost control, and economics has become a dark force in the hands of ruthless new entrepreneurs. From the European sex trade to the rise of Islamic finance, from the Chinese counterfeit industry to fish pirates of the Baltic Sea, Rogue Economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare. Trapped inside the ‘Market Matrix’, a web of economic and commercial illusions, consumers are at the mercy of this new force.
In ROGUE ECONOMICS (Seven Stories Press; April 2, 2008) Loretta Napoleoni, economist, Fulbright Scholar and an expert on terror financing, lays out a brilliant assessment of the dark forces unleashed by globalization. The global subprime crisis, the swift rise of the super-rich and illegal businesses ranging on the Internet, all are part of this phenomenon which flourishes during times of great upheaval. As in the Gold Rush and the Industrial Revolution, Rogue Economics exposes the paradoxical economic connections of the global market and the making of a new world order.