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.
| ISBN: | 9781642591132 |
| Publication date: | 6th May 2014 |
| Author: | Arundhati Roy |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 136 pages |
| Genres: |
Social classes Development economics and emerging economies Asian history Human geography |
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 features in the following genres: Social classes, Development economics and emerging economies, Asian history, Human geography
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Capitalism was written by Arundhati Roy and published by Haymarket Books
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