Disaster capitalism
Subtitle: making a killing out of catastrophe
By: Antony Loewenstein
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781784781156; 9781784781170
Subjects: International business enterprises; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General; Corporate power; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries; Social aspects; Social policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
Description: "Crisis? What crisis? How powerful corporations make a killing out of disaster  Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism--the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain's immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites"--

"Award-winning journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across the US, Britain, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and Australia to witness the reality of Disaster Capitalism--the hidden world of privatized detention centers and militarized private security, formed to protect corporations as they profit from war zones. He visits Britain's immigration detention centers, tours the prison system in the United States, and digs into the underbelly of the companies making a fortune from them. Loewenstein reveals the dark history of how large multinational corporations have become more powerful than governments, supported by media and political elites"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.