An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public relations, knew the answer to such a key question. The amazing story of the master of manipulation and the creation of the engineering of consent; a frightening true story about advertising, lies and charlatans.
The story of Christian Gerhartsreiter, an habitual conman, Rockefeller impostor, and convicted murderer.
After four decades, America's most notorious con man has been caught - unravelling a shocking and extraordinary story of multiple identities and deception that stretches from a Bavarian village to California, where, in January 2012, he was charged with murder. With exclusive access to many people that knew him at every step of his journey True Stories paints a portrait of the man who started life as Christian Gerhartsreiter, a poor country boy from a tiny mountain village in Upper Bavaria and who pursued the American dream for years in order to reach the upper echelons of society, ending up as Clark Rockefeller - banker, socialite and member of one of America's richest families, married to a successful business woman and living in a $2 million townhouse with a country estate in the grandest part of New Hampshire.
"괴짜경제학"은 경제학자들이 보통 잘 다루지 않는, 그러니까 경제학 영역을 벗어나는 것으로 여겨지는 주제들을 탐구한다. 그가 가장 큰 관심을 가진 주제는 범죄와 부정행위이다. 그리고 인종문제나 낙태, 교육 같은 주제들도 함께 등장한다. 범죄, 부정행위 및 통상적으로 우리가 진실이라고 믿고 있던 것에 대하여 그 인과관계를 경제학적(실제로는 통계학적)으로 분석하여 예상외의 결과를 보여주고 있다.
Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency.
