Kleptopia
Autor Tom Burgisen Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 sep 2020
Aplicabilitatea practică a acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea sa de a descifra mecanismele financiare obscure care, deși invizibile pentru publicul larg, dictează stabilitatea politică și economică la nivel mondial. În Kleptopia, Tom Burgis nu se limitează la o expunere teoretică a corupției, ci construiește o narativă riguroasă despre modul în care banii murdari infiltrează instituțiile democratice. Apreciem în mod deosebit structura de tip investigație jurnalistică, ce urmărește patru fire narative distincte: de la un bancher britanic redus la tăcere, la un oligarh din spațiul ex-sovietic și un avocat canadian cu clienți misterioși. Merită menționat că această ediție aduce o postfață nouă, esențială pentru a înțelege evoluțiile recente ale acestui sistem „monstruos” al capitalismului global. Cititorii familiarizați cu Moneyland de Oliver Bullough vor aprecia modul în care Tom Burgis duce analiza mai departe, făcând trecerea de la conceptul de paradis fiscal la cel de putere politică brută exercitată prin intermediul capitalului ilicit. Dacă în The Looting Machine autorul se concentra pe modul în care comerțul cu resurse a devastat Africa, aici perspectiva se lărgește, conectând punctele între Kremlin, Beijing și instituțiile financiare din City-ul londonez sau Washington. Stilul este unul alert, amintind de un roman polițist, însă rigoarea documentării confirmă statutul lui Burgis de autoritate în domeniul criminalității comerciale. Suntem de părere că lucrarea reușește să demonstreze cum „kleptocrația” nu este un fenomen izolat, ci o rețea globală coordonată care amenință însăși fundamentele democrației.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0062883658
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 162 x 236 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Harper Collins Publ. USA
Colecția Harper
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Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă forțele reale care modelează geopolitica actuală. Kleptopia oferă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care corupția transfrontalieră subminează statul de drept. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere profundă a legăturii dintre finanțele globale și stabilitatea politică, primind un instrument de analiză indispensabil pentru a descifra știrile despre sancțiuni internaționale, oligarhi și fluxuri de capital suspecte.
Despre autor
Tom Burgis este un jurnalist de investigație de renume internațional, ale cărui lucrări se concentrează pe intersecția dintre putere, bani și corupție. Experiența sa vastă în documentarea zonelor de conflict și a piețelor emergente a fost recunoscută prin numeroase premii, inclusiv Overseas Press Club Award. În lucrările sale anterioare, precum The Looting Machine, a explorat impactul devastator al exploatării resurselor naturale, temă pe care o extinde în Kleptopia și în cea mai recentă lucrare a sa, Cuckooland. Burgis este apreciat pentru curajul de a expune rețelele complexe de influență care leagă regimurile autoritare de centrele financiare globale.
Descriere scurtă
“A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November…. A magisterial account of the money and violence behind the world’s most powerful dictatorships.” –Washington Post
In this shocking, meticulously reported work of narrative nonfiction, an award-winning investigative journalist exposes “capitalism’s monster”—global kleptocracy—and reveals how it is corrupting the world around us.
They are everywhere, the thieves and their people. Masters of secrecy. Until now we have detected their presence only by what they leave behind. A body in a burned-out Audi. Workers riddled with bullets in the Kazakh Desert. A rigged election in Zimbabwe. A British banker silenced and humiliated for trying to expose the truth about the City of London.
They have amassed more money than most countries. But what they are really stealing is power.
In this real-life thriller packed with jaw-dropping revelations, award-winning investigative journalist Tom Burgis weaves together four stories that reveal a terrifying global web of corruption: the troublemaker from Basingstoke who stumbles on the secrets of a Swiss bank, the ex-Soviet billionaire constructing a private empire, the righteous Canadian lawyer with a mysterious client, and the Brooklyn crook protected by the CIA.
Glimpses of this shadowy world have emerged over the years. In Kleptopia, Burgis connects the dots. He follows the dirty money that is flooding the global economy, emboldening dictators, and poisoning democracies. From the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House, the trail shows something even more sinister: the thieves are uniting. And the human cost will be great.
Recenzii
— Washington Post
“Simultaneously clear, elegant and engaging, Kleptopia pulls together several seemingly disparate strands in an assured, daring piece of story-telling. In the process, Tom Burgis reveals exactly how in the last thirty years organized crime and financial capitalism have fused to create a force of such power that no government or leader is free from the pressure it is able to apply. This is Jane Mayer's Dark Money on a global scale. When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down.”
— Misha Glenny, author of McMafia
“Compelling. . . . The many strands in this complex global story are elegantly woven together and delivered in a form that makes the technicalities of finance accessible to the non-expert. . . . Kleptopia illuminates the legalised secrecy around the hubs of big money and how integral dirty money is to political power.” — Financial Times
"It is hard to write about international corruption in an accessible and colourful way, while retaining an urgent sense of moral condemnation. This book beautifully captures both the murkiness and turpitude involved. Its ultimate theme—the intersection of politics and personal enrichment—is one of the most important stories of the age." — Economist Best Books of the Year citation
“A meticulously reported piece of investigative journalism … written in the style of a fast-paced thriller. . . . A page-turner that lifts the lid on the murky world in which power is turned into money and money into power.” — The Times (London)
“Corruption on a grand scale is fantastically complicated and tough to write about… Kleptopia does the job brilliantly. Burgis spins his tale of global corruption from the ground up, [beginning] with a hero straight out of a John le Carré novel…Kleptopia is wonderfully if grimly entertaining.” — The Economist
“Depicts an unsavory coalition of corrupt strongmen, artful criminals, and rapacious élites who, abetted by a network of accountants, lawyers, and other professional facilitators, have managed to pillage money on a grand scale and hide it abroad….The monetization of public office, Burgis believes, is no longer an aberration but often the very “purpose of seeking that office.” The techniques of financial obfuscation have grown so sophisticated that theft is easy, and, for the thief who hires the right advisers, impunity is all but assured.” — New Yorker
“Burgis’s study of dark global realities casts a wide net, from Washington to Moscow, Kazakhstan and the Congo . . . [Burgis is] an impressive investigator. . . . A ghastly and very important story.” — The Guardian
“Kleptopia is a powerful, appalling, and stunningly-reported expose of the global corruption that runs like an underground river from the world's darkest and dirtiest dictatorships through some of the planet's richest banks and governments. It reads like fiction, but unfortunately is all too true: Burgis names names, and follows the money, right into the Trump White House, among other high places. His narrative shows how dark money has grown from a national problem into an international scourge.” — Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money
“Read Kleptopia now. There is no time to lose. Read it now to understand that the struggle between dirty money and clean money has been won by dirty money. Tom Burgis demonstrates that money does indeed stink — and shows in Kleptopia how to follow its scent.” — Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah
“Impressively researched and disturbing.” — Times Literary Supplement (London)
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Descriere
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This new and terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it' GEORGE MONBIOT, GUARDIAN