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Capitalism's Achilles Heel
Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System
Raymond W. Baker (Author)
9781119086611, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2015
450 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.599 kg
For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism’s Achilles Heel, Baker takes readers on a fascinating journey through the global free-market system and reveals how dirty money, poverty, and inequality are inextricably intertwined. Readers will discover how small illicit transactions lead to massive illegalities and how staggering global income disparities are worsened by the illegalities that permeate international capitalism. Drawing on his experiences, Baker shows how Western banks and businesses use secret transactions and ignore laws while handling some $1 trillion in illicit proceeds each year. He also illustrates how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds and how these tactics negatively affect individuals, institutions, and countries.
Prologue 1 CHAPTER 1 Global Capitalism: Savior or Predator? 11 PART I Illegality: We Like the Money 21 CHAPTER 2 Playing the Game 23 The Dirty-Money User Manual 24 You're in Business 47 CHAPTER 3 Dirty Money at Work 48 The Corruption Industry 49 The Criminal Component: Drugs, Thugs, 88 and Terrorists Global Commerce and Tax Evasion: Coin of the Realm 133 CHAPTER 4 Magnitudes and Misunderstandings 162 How Much Money? 162 A Failure Rate of 99.9 Percent 173 Well-Intentioned Efforts 174 The Patriot Act 177 Dirty Money Is on the Rise 182 Chasing Terrorists' Money 183 Ill-Intentioned Loopholes 186 Haven and Secrecy Structure 191 Falsified Pricing Structure 194 We Like the Money 201 Challenge 205 PART II Inequality: The Gap Matters 207 CHAPTER 5 The Global Divide 210 The Quintile Canyon 210 Measure for Measure 217 It's an Uncertain World 224 The Monkey Wrench 234 CHAPTER 6 "I Don't Understand" and "Don't Tell Anyone" 240 Myths 241 "Don't Tell Anyone" 246 Corruption—At Long Last! 249 Filling Western Coffers: Mum's the Word 252 Debtor's Prison 254 What If? 257 Intellectual Gap or Character Gap? 258 CHAPTER 7 It's the 70 to 90 Percent that Matters 262 It Can't Last 262 Convergence? 267 The Gap Matters 272 Challenge 275 PART III Disutility: Bentham KOs Smith 279 CHAPTER 8 The Anguish of Adam Smith 282 Theory of Moral Sentiments 283 Wealth of Nations 286 Invisible Hand 290 Das Adam Smith Problem 293 The Tears of Adam Smith 297 CHAPTER 9 The Joys of Jeremy Bentham 300 Jurisprudence 301 Utilitarianism 302 Related Interests 305 John Stuart Mill 307 Problems 309 CHAPTER 10 Philosophy Becomes Culture 312 The Great Infusion 313 Twentieth-Century Utility 319 Twentieth-Century Utilitarianism 321 Inoperable Doctrine, Deadly Practice 323 Disutility 327 Challenge 330 PART IV Run It Right: Trust the System 333 CHAPTER 11 Capitalism's Achilles Heel 337 CHAPTER 12 Spreading Prosperity 342 Delegitimizing Dirty Money 342 Tougher on Corruption 346 Reining in the Support Structure 346 Mispricing and Transfer Pricing 348 Capitalism's Contribution to Slashing Inequality 351 ". . . When You Pay Me What You Owe Me" 353 Reconstitute the World Bank 360 Justice First 361 CHAPTER 13 Renewing Capitalism 368 Acknowledgments 377 Notes 383 Index 425
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
