Crime of Empire by Ricco Alejandro M Santos

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A Case Against Globalization and Third World Poverty as a World System

"What the following data and conclusions point to is not just the reality of global poverty. More importantly, what it seeks to unravel is the reality of system-driven global impoverishment and poverty-creation in support of global enrichment and wealth-creation—a process of high crime and grand fraud made all the more pernicious, not just by its patent exploitativeness and extreme social injustice, but also by its "invisibility" and concealment by the blinders of the market. It is thus a perfect crime, until, of course, it is adequately exposed. But, until then, it remains the world's best-kept secret."

This is an excellently researched book about the ravages of globalization using the Philippines as an example.

Ricco “Ricky” Santos had been involved in Philippine social activism since 1970 and in critical social studies since 1971. He is the author of the book Beyond the surface: A theoretical Framework on the Analysis of the Mode of Production in the Philippines. For Moro and non-Moro areas in Mindanao, he designed a Mode of Production Survey, an extensive Philippine empirical research completed on the question of underdevelopment.

Sidelakes Press and Literary Agency, 2003, softcover, 600pp, tables.

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