Title: Hot money and the politics of debt /
Authors: Naylor, R. T., 1945-
Publisher: Black Rose Books,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Money laundering.; International finance; Debts, External Developing countries
Abstract: "The third edition of Hot Money and the Politics of Debt is an updated examination of the most intractable problems currently facing the world economy: the simultaneous emergence of hot money and of a massive, growing, and ultimately unrepayable debt imposed on the world's poor countries."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction / Michael Hudson -- 1. Capital flight in the jet age -- 2. Eurodollars and nonsense -- 3. Red ink and black gold -- 4. Sheikhs in sombreros? -- 5. Putting the money changers back in the temple -- 6. Of dope, debt, and dictatorship -- 7. Playing Russian Roulette with the polish debt -- 8. Paradise lost? -- 9. What went down with the Belgrano? -- 10. Born-again banking -- 11. On coca-collateral and the Andean debt -- 12. Country of convenience -- 13. Some like it hot -- 14. Birds of a feather... -- 15. Swiss contributions to economic development -- 16. Good neighbor Switzerland -- 17. Economics for the moral majority -- 18. Buddy, can you spare a billion? -- 19. What's better in the Bahamas? -- 20. Ghost companies and haunted banks -- 21. Capital punishment -- 22. Taking stock -- 23. Flight of fancy -- Postscript : the permanent bull economy -- Afterword : on whom the toll tells.