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Capitalism : a ghost story

"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."--Back cover
Print Book, English, 2014
Haymarket Books, Chicago, IL, 2014
Essay
125 pages ; 20 cm
9781608463855, 1608463850
859046489
Preface: The president took the salute
Capitalism: a ghost story
I'd rather not be Anna
Dead men talking
Kashmir's fruits of discord
A perfect day for democracy
Consequences of hanging Afzal Guru
Afterword: Speech to the people's university