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Crass Struggle : Greed, Glitz, and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (494 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773586529
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crass StruggleDDC classification:
  • 306.3
LOC classification:
  • HB835 -- .N39 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preamble: Bacchanalian Adventures with the Ultra-Rich -- PART ONE: RAZZLE DAZZLE -- 1 The Gold Diggers: Precious Metal, Poisoned Chalice -- 2 Vulgari: Flawed Beauty in the Gemstones Business -- 3 Icecapades: The Diamond's Darker Facets -- PART TWO: PACK RATS -- 4 Sketchy Business: On Art Connoisseurs and Con Artists -- 5 The Chiselers: From Tomb-Raider to Curator -- 6 The Numismaniacs: When Big Modern Money Chases Little Old Coins -- PART THREE: THE COST OF HIGH LIVING -- 7 The Winophiliacs: Uncorking the Secrets of the Wine Trade -- 8 Puff Artists: Behind the Smokescreen of High-End Cigars -- 9 Afishionados: On Fishy Business in the Fishing Business -- PART FOUR: INVASION OF THE BIOSNATCHERS -- 10 Jailbirds: If Parrots Could Really Talk… -- 11 The Hunter-Gatherer Society: From Law of the Jungle to Maw of the Market -- 12 Goring the Tusk Trade: Mammoth Task, Toothless Law? -- Coda: From Class Struggle to Crass Struggle -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: "From class struggle to crass struggle; that is the defining feature of the times. And the genius of today's political economy has been to convert what used to be a potential life-and-death conflict between haves and have-nots into a minor disagreement between have-lots and wanna-have-mores." Why do those who are extremely well off spend their money in socially and environmentally damaging ways? How do crooks, con artists, and counterfeiters function in the hypercharged markets catering to the whims and fancies of the very rich? And why do so many of the less fortunate insist on slavishly emulating the über rich, spending way beyond what their limited means allow?.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preamble: Bacchanalian Adventures with the Ultra-Rich -- PART ONE: RAZZLE DAZZLE -- 1 The Gold Diggers: Precious Metal, Poisoned Chalice -- 2 Vulgari: Flawed Beauty in the Gemstones Business -- 3 Icecapades: The Diamond's Darker Facets -- PART TWO: PACK RATS -- 4 Sketchy Business: On Art Connoisseurs and Con Artists -- 5 The Chiselers: From Tomb-Raider to Curator -- 6 The Numismaniacs: When Big Modern Money Chases Little Old Coins -- PART THREE: THE COST OF HIGH LIVING -- 7 The Winophiliacs: Uncorking the Secrets of the Wine Trade -- 8 Puff Artists: Behind the Smokescreen of High-End Cigars -- 9 Afishionados: On Fishy Business in the Fishing Business -- PART FOUR: INVASION OF THE BIOSNATCHERS -- 10 Jailbirds: If Parrots Could Really Talk… -- 11 The Hunter-Gatherer Society: From Law of the Jungle to Maw of the Market -- 12 Goring the Tusk Trade: Mammoth Task, Toothless Law? -- Coda: From Class Struggle to Crass Struggle -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

"From class struggle to crass struggle; that is the defining feature of the times. And the genius of today's political economy has been to convert what used to be a potential life-and-death conflict between haves and have-nots into a minor disagreement between have-lots and wanna-have-mores." Why do those who are extremely well off spend their money in socially and environmentally damaging ways? How do crooks, con artists, and counterfeiters function in the hypercharged markets catering to the whims and fancies of the very rich? And why do so many of the less fortunate insist on slavishly emulating the über rich, spending way beyond what their limited means allow?.

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