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Hot Money and the Politics of Debt, Third Edition
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R.T. Naylor
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English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
A ball of hot money rolls around the world. It seeks anonymity and political refuge. It dodges taxes and sidesteps currency controls. It rolls through offshore shell companies and secret bank accounts, phoney charities and fraudulent religious foundations. It is kept rolling by white-collar criminals, gun-runners, drug dealers, insurgent groups, scam artists, tax evaders, gold and gem smugglers, and, not least, secret service agents plotting coups and financing revolutions. R.T. Naylor explains the origins of this pool of hot and homeless money, its origins, its uses and abuses, how the world of high finance, corporate and governmental, became hostage to it, and the price the world is paying and will continue to pay until the hostages are released. This book was one of the first, and remains the most comprehensive, to dissect the world of offshore finance, capital flight, money laundering, and tax evasion. Once a subject of concern principally to tax authorities and finance ministries, since the September 11, 2001 hot and homeless money has now become a central preoccupation for police forces and intelligence services around the world.
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Contributor: R.T. Naylor
R.T. Naylor is professor of economics at McGill University. His books include Satanic Purses, Wages of Crime, Patriots and Profiteers, and Hot Money and the Politics of Debt.
Reviews
"This book is terrific!" Clayton Ruby, The Globe and Mail
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"Naylor outlines in convincing ... detail the controversial mechanisms by which international financial relations are conducted." MacLean's Magazine
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"[Naylor's book] is both entertaining and though-provoking ... He leaves no doubt that there is a lot of hot and dirty money around and that it would be harder to shuffle around without the banks." Washington Post Book Review
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"This book is terrific!" Clayton Ruby, The Globe and Mail
"Naylor outlines in convincing ... detail the controversial mechanisms by which international financial relations are conducted." MacLean's Magazine
"[Naylor's book] is both entertaining and though-provoking ... He leaves no doubt that there is a lot of hot and dirty money around and that it would be harder to shuffle around without the banks." Washington Post Book Review
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments to the First Edition
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Introduction
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Prologue
11 - The World According to Meyer Lansky
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Capital Flight in the JetAge
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Eurodollars and Nonsense
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Red Iuk and Black Gold
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Sheikhs in Sombreros?
60 - Parables of Peculiar Talents
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Putting the Money Changers Bak in the Temple
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Of Dope, Debt,and Dictatorship
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Playing Russian Roulette with the Polish Debt
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Paradise Lost?
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What Went Down with the Belgrano?
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Born-Again Banking
150 - High Finance in Cocaine Country
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On coca-collateral and the Andean Debt
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Country of Convenience
186 - What gets Washed in the Pacific Basin?
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Some Like It Hot
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Binds of a Feather...
216 - What Flies into the Cuckoo's nest?
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Swiss Contributions to Economic Development
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Good Neighbor Switzerland
250 - The Grim Reaper
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Economics for the Moral Majority
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Buddy, Can Non Spare a Billion?
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Whats's Better in the Bahamas?
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Ghost Companies and Haunted Banks
310 - Strange Harvest
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Capital Punishment
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Taking Stock
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Flight of Fancy
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Postscript: The Permanent Bull Economy
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Afterword On Whom the Toll Tells
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Final Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Bibliography and Sources
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Index
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July 5, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9780773572072
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480
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Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
