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Fat Cats and Running Dogs
The Enron Stage of Capitalism
2002
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From the author of two Village Voice books of the year comes a ruthless exposé of the raptors at Enron. Behind the screams over workers' disappearing pensions, disappearing jobs, and disappearing CEO responsibility lies a bigger story: What Enron has done to the world. Included is "A Manual for Corporate Terrestrial Conquest," complete with juicy tips for imperialist globalization: how to fix prices using ADM as a model; how to enlist the henchmen of the imperial state (such as the CIA's economic espionage division and USAID, as Enron has done); and how to use terrorism and the drug war to push for more corporate control as Enron did in Colombia. Prashad shows we have come full-circle, back to the imperialism practiced by the East India Company from 1600-1857. Even as Enron collapsed, Enronism is the new normal. A new level of criminality. Criminality perfected by Enron.

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Author

Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad
Author · 21 books
Vijay Prashad is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His most recent book is Red Star Over the Third World. He writes regularly for Frontline, The Hindu, Alternet and BirGun.
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