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challenging
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
The Guardian described this as 'devastating' and that there persists a quasi-religious faith in free markets (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/sep/15/politics). Exploring themes including
- Crisis opportunism
- Voodoo politics
- Nations inheriting debt from oppressors
- Corporatism
- Volatility of global economy - Crisis is built on crisis.
"An economic system that requires constant growth, while bucking almost all serious attempts at environmental regulation, generates a steady stream of disasters all on its own, whether military, ecological or financial. The appetite for easy, short-term profits offered by purely speculative investment has turned the stock, currency and real estate markets into crisis-creation machines, as the Asian financial crisis, the Mexican peso crisis and the dotcom collapse all demonstrate."
The chapter on the 2003 Iraq war and pinochet's reign of terror really hit me.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, War, and Murder
Moderate: Racism
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