
Invisible Trillions
How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy and the Way to Renew Our Broken System
Raymond W. Baker(Author)
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Published on 31. January 2023
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-5230-0302-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Our current democratic capitalist system is close to imploding. This book is the first to reveal the secret financial system dominating capitalism today and shows how we can create accountability to restore our democracy. Over the last half century, capitalism has created the means for trillions of dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly-beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist operations, riches move inexorably upward and accelerate economic inequality, directly obstructing and threatening democracy. In three parts, Invisible Trillions reveals how capitalism today functions outside the control of democracy and how we can link the two once again. Acknowledging the corruption and complacency of our institutions, Raymond W. Baker walks readers through covert financial operations, their instigators, and their impacts. He also argues for replacing financial secrecy with transparency via mechanisms such as mandated disclosure around corporate and financial entities and operations. This book takes the first step toward holding our systems accountable. After all, the very survival of the democratic capitalist system is at stake"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
556 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5230-0302-0 (9781523003020)
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Person
Raymond W. Baker is the founder and president of Global Financial Integrity, a research and advocacy think tank organization working to curtail illicit financial flows. He was previously a scholar at the Brookings Institute and currently serves on the Policy Advisory Board of Transparency International-USA, the Advisory Board of the Ethical Research Institute, and the World Economic Forum’s Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy. Baker has been featured on BBC, the CBS Evening News, CNN, NPR, and others, and he is the author of Capitalism’s Achilles Heel.