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What do you buy and sell when the global markets reach saturation point? The markets themselves. Thirty years from now the big players in global capitalism have moved on from commodities. The big money is in conflict investment. The corporations keep a careful watch on the wars of liberation and revolution that burn constantly around the world. They guage who the winners will be and sell them arms, intelligence and power. In return for a slice of the action when the war is won. The reward? A stake in the new nation. It's cynical, brutal and it has nothing to do with democracy and the rule of law. So what else is new? The executives in this lethal game bid for contracts, fight for promotion, secure their lives on the roads. Fighting lethal duels in souped up, heavily armoured cars on the empty motorways of the future. Chris Faulkener has a lethal reputation and a new job at Shorn Associates. Has he got what it takes to make a real killing?… (más)
Chris Faulkner es un joven y prometedor ejecutivo que se ha labrado la reputación trabajando en Mercados Emergentes y ha llamado la atención de los cazatalentos de Shorn Associates, que lo contratan en su división estrella: Inversión en Conflictos. Y en el nuevo puesto, las directrices son inequívocas: «En todo el mundo, hombres y mujeres siguen encontrando causas por las que matar y morir. ¿Quiénes somos nosotros para discutírselo? Decidir si es correcto o incorrecto no es nuestro cometido. En Inversión en Conflictos de Shorn Associates sólo nos hacemos dos preguntas: ¿Ganarán? Y en tal caso, ¿pagarán? No juzgamos; no moralizamos; no malgastamos. Nosotros calculamos, invertimos. Y prosperamos.»
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I know- that the cannibals wear smart suits and ties And I know - they arm-wrestle on the altar And I say - don't leave your heart in a hard place
Midnight Oil - Sometimes
If (I asked) the commercial banks, the official creditors, the Bank, the IMF, the TNCs, the money managers and the global elites were happy, who were we to complain?
Susan George - The Lugano Report
Dedicatoria
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Market Forces is dedicated, with love, to my earliest fan, my sister Caroline - because she's waited long enough
It's also dedicated to all those, globally, whose lives have been wrecked or snuffed out by the Great Neoliberal Dream and Slash-and-Burn Globalisation.
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Checkout. The shiny black plastic swipes through. Nothing.
Citas
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Gave himself up to the snarl of the engine, the spreading numbness of the drugs in his system, and the onrushing emptiness of the road ahead.
What do you buy and sell when the global markets reach saturation point? The markets themselves. Thirty years from now the big players in global capitalism have moved on from commodities. The big money is in conflict investment. The corporations keep a careful watch on the wars of liberation and revolution that burn constantly around the world. They guage who the winners will be and sell them arms, intelligence and power. In return for a slice of the action when the war is won. The reward? A stake in the new nation. It's cynical, brutal and it has nothing to do with democracy and the rule of law. So what else is new? The executives in this lethal game bid for contracts, fight for promotion, secure their lives on the roads. Fighting lethal duels in souped up, heavily armoured cars on the empty motorways of the future. Chris Faulkener has a lethal reputation and a new job at Shorn Associates. Has he got what it takes to make a real killing?
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Y en el nuevo puesto, las directrices son inequívocas: «En todo el mundo, hombres y mujeres siguen encontrando causas por las que matar y morir. ¿Quiénes somos nosotros para discutírselo? Decidir si es correcto o incorrecto no es nuestro cometido. En Inversión en Conflictos de Shorn Associates sólo nos hacemos dos preguntas: ¿Ganarán? Y en tal caso, ¿pagarán? No juzgamos; no moralizamos; no malgastamos. Nosotros calculamos, invertimos. Y prosperamos.»