Killing the Host by Michael Hudson

Killing the Host by Michael Hudson

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Killing the Host by Michael Hudson

How financial parasites and debt destroy the global economy. Professor Hudson continues the discussion on the financialization of capital and its global effects. KILING THE HOST exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have gained control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments. The FIRE sector is responsible for today's economic polarization (the 1% vs. the 99%) via favored tax status that inflates real estate prices while deflating the -real- economy of labor and production. The Great 2008 Bailout saved the banks but not the economy, and plunged the U.S., Irish, Latvian and Greek economies into debt deflation and austerity. This book describes how the phenomenon of debt deflation imposes austerity on the U.S. and European economies, siphoning wealth and income upward to the financial sector while impoverishing the middle class.

Michael C. Hudson is a Georgetown University professor of international relations and the Seif Ghobash Professor of Arab Studies.

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ISBN 13 9783981484281
ISBN 10 3981484282
Title Killing the Host
Author Michael Hudson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Islet
Year published 2015-08-20
Number of pages 440
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