Kleptopia : how dirty money is conquering the world / Tom Burgis.
By: Burgis, Tom [author.]
.Publisher: London : William Collins, 2020Description: xv, 446 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780008308346.Subject(s): Corruption | Money laundering | Transnational crimeDDC classification: 364.1323 Summary: " 'Kleptopia' 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 Trump White House, it shows how the thieves are uniting – and the terrible human cost. 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 – the world’s piggy bank for blood money. Riveting, horrifying and written like fiction, this book shows that while we are looking the other way, all that we hold most dear is being stolen."-- Taken from publisher's website. https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/kleptopia-how-dirty-money-is-conquering-the-world-tom-burgis-1?variant=39384579244110 accessed 5 November 2021.
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| 364.1320973 HIG The friends of Richard Nixon / | 364.1323 BAR Understanding corruption : how corruption works in practice / | 364.1323 BOY Trial by conspiracy / | 364.1323 BUR Kleptopia : how dirty money is conquering the world / | 364.1323 CEV Political corruption : the internal enemy of public institutions / | 364.1323 CHA Thieves of state : | 364.1323 CON Controlling corruption / |
" 'Kleptopia' 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 Trump White House, it shows how the thieves are uniting – and the terrible human cost. 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 – the world’s piggy bank for blood money. Riveting, horrifying and written like fiction, this book shows that while we are looking the other way, all that we hold most dear is being stolen."-- Taken from publisher's website.
https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/kleptopia-how-dirty-money-is-conquering-the-world-tom-burgis-1?variant=39384579244110 accessed 5 November 2021.