Loretta Napoleoni, Author, "Rogue Economics"
| DATE: | Wednesday, April 9, 2008 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 PM |
| PLACE: | 223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Lecture |
| SPONSORS: | Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute of International Studies, Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, Religion, Politics and Globalization Program |
In her book, Rogue Economics, Ms. Loretta Napoleoni examines the deleterious economic forces that have historically accompanied great epochal shifts. She argues that the explosion of the sex trade in Eastern Europe; the ascendancy of the hawala form of Islamic banking; and the transformations taking place in China as it tests, and at times reshapes, the rules of the global market, are all symptoms of an economic Pandora's box opened by this epochal shift.
Ms. Napoleoni is one of the world's leading experts on money laundering and terror financing. Her previous works include the bestselling Terror Inc: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism, traced the economics of the terror networks and has been translated into 12 languages; her second book, Insurgent Iraq was an early look at the growing insurgency as led by al-Zarqawi.
Books will be sold and signed after the event
