Global Capitalism

In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their money using complex webs of offshore vehicles. Spiderweb Capitalism takes you inside this shadow economy, uncovering the mechanics behind the invisible, mundane networks of lawyers, accountants, company secretaries, and fixers who facilitate the illicit movement of wealth across borders and around the globe. Hoang reveals the strategies and examines the moral dilemmas of making money in legal, financial, and political gray zones.

Un alegato a favor de la globalización: no es excesiva, sino insuficiente. El libre mercado ha sacado a millones de personas del hambre y la pobreza, una realidad evidente incluso para Marx y Engels. Pese a ello, a principios de este milenio, emergió y proliferó un potente movimiento anticapitalista internacional. Johan Norberg desarrolló entonces una esclarecedora defensa de la teoría y la práctica del liberalismo económico. Su tesis contribuyó a crear conciencia sobre el hecho de que los países sólo podrían salir del subdesarrollo con más comercio, inversión e iniciativa empresarial.

Counter-Cola charts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, the Coca-Cola Company. It tells the story of how, over the past 130 years, the corporation has tried to make its products and brands physically and culturally a central part of global daily life in over 200 countries. Through this story of Coca-Cola, Amanda Ciafone reveals the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformations-liberal, developmentalist, neoliberal - of the 20th and 21st centuries. A story of global capitalism, it is not without contest.