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“alain deneault”

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  • Mediocracy

    The Politics of the Extreme Centre

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Legalizing Theft

    A Short Guide to Tax Havens

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax losses, the use of tax havens by large corporations and wealthy individuals explains the increasingly popular austerity policies of governments in the West.With formidable efficacy and clarity, and in the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Offshore

    Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by George Holoch ...
    The author of Mediocracy reveals the truth about unregulated tax havens—where half the world's money supply is concentrated—and their effects on democracy.Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers—from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru— amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and ... Read more

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  • Offshore

    Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime

    by Alain Deneault ...
    Offshore reveals how the vast network of unregulated financial centers—from Luxemburg to the Cayman islands to the tiny Pacific haven of Nauru— amount to a nether realm of drug and arms trade profits, enormous private accounts, and multinational corporate financial holdings. Delving into the scandals, the financial structure, and the history of this hidden side of globalization, sociologist Alain ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Canada: A New Tax Haven

    Translated by Catherine Browne ...
    by Alain Deneault ...
    In Canada: A New Tax Haven, Alain Deneault traces Canada’s relationship with Britain’s Caribbean colonies back through the last half of the twentieth century, arguing that the involvement of Canadian financiers in establishing and maintaining Caribbean tax havens has predisposed Canada to become a tax haven itself – a metamorphosis well under way.Canada was linked to Caribbean nations long before ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Imperial Canada Inc.

    Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries

    by William Sacher, Alain Deneault ...
    Translated by Fred A. Reed ...
    Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?Created by the British North America Act of 1867, Canada, rather than turning away from its colonial past, actively embraced, appropriated, and perpetuated the imperial ambitions of its mother country. Two years later, it took possession of Rupert’s Land—all of the land ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Time for Socialism

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    $17.99 USD

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  • What Ails France?

    by Brigitte Granville ...
    As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires gloom among many of its citizens. Brigitte Granville views this malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the difficulties experienced by many advanced industrial democracies in the face of globalization, technology, and mass immigration.Granville brings trenchant criticism to ... Read more

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  • Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank

    Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers

    by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet ...
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  • Euro Exit

    by Jean-Jacques Rosa ...
    The euro has been the worst governmental mistake since deflationary policy turned the 1929 crisis into a decade of depression. The book explains why European politicians and businessmen decided to circumvent democratic consent in order to lock their societies into a single European super-state and reap the advantages of monetary cartelization, pushing the Great Contraction towards a new Great ... Read more

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  • Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa

    by John R. Heilbrunn ...
    Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa presents an optimistic analysis of the continent's oil-producing states. With attention to the complex histories, the interactions of key industry actors and policy makers, and the goals of diverse groups in society, this contribution fills a gap in the literature on resource-abundant countries. John R. Heilbrunn presents a positive assessment of ... Read more

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