A "keenly observed and
timely investigation" of how capitalism makes a fortune from
disaster, poverty and catastrophe--"a potent weapon for shock
resistors around the world" (Naomi Klein, author of The
Shock Doctrine)
Disaster
has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein
travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the
United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality
of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on
organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers,
militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive
mining.
What
emerges through Loewenstein's reporting is a dark history of
multinational corporations that, with the aid of media and political
elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the
twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most
valuable commodity.