Loretta Napoleoni, author portrait

Loretta Napoleoni

A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully in Forbes and the Wall Street JournalLORETTA NAPOLEONI was born in 1955 in Rome. In the mid 1970s she became an active member of the feminist movement in Italy, and later studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career as an economist, and went on to work as London correspondent and columnist for La StampaLa Repubblica and La Paîs. Napoleoni is the author of the international bestsellers Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Realityand Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. She has served as the Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, and lectures regularly around the world on economics, money laundering and terrorism. Napoleoni lives in London and Montana.
Technocapitalism
ISIS: The Terror Nation
Merchants of Men
The Islamist Phoenix
Maonomics
10 Years That Shook the World
Terrorism and the Economy
Rogue Economics
Insurgent Iraq
Terror Incorporated

Books

Technocapitalism
ISIS: The Terror Nation
Merchants of Men
The Islamist Phoenix
Maonomics
10 Years That Shook the World
Terrorism and the Economy
Rogue Economics
Insurgent Iraq
Terror Incorporated

10 Years That Shook The World

10 Years that Shook the World tells the tale of an extraordinary decade post 9/11. Within each year, the book present events not in a strict chronology but more as we might remember them, often with the most significant events recalled first. The main topics—politics, economics, people, technology, and the environment—cross over constantly, showing how they are all interlinked and how globalization poses a phenomenal challenge to our world.

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