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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Contributor(s): Roy, Arundhati (Author)
ISBN: 1608463850     ISBN-13: 9781608463855
Publisher: Haymarket Books
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries
- Business & Economics | Free Enterprise & Capitalism
- History | Asia - India & South Asia
Dewey: 330.954
LCCN: 2014002844
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.2" W x 7.4" (0.30 lbs) 136 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Indian
- Cultural Region - Developing World
 
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From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country's 100 richest people own assets equivalent to one-fourth of India's gross domestic product.


Capitalism: A Ghost Story examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people to the highest and most intense forms of racism and exploitation.