Disaster Capitalism : Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

376pp. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine (cloth at spine tips very slightly rounded). Internally neat, clean and bright (there's small pencil number written on the rear paste down endpaper). In its original bright and crisp dust jacket (with the remains of a price sticker on the front). 8vo. Leading journalist Antony Loewenstein journeys through Afghanistan, Haiti, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Greece and Australia, witnessing the reality of disasters caused by rampant capitalism, uncovering multi-national companies taking advantage of a secret world of private detention centres, private security, profiteering and destructive mining and resource exploitation. What results is a dark and disturbing history of how some of the world's largest corporations, with the connivance of political elites and the media, have become more powerful than national governments.