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Crass struggle : greed, glitz, and gluttony in a wanna-have world

Title: Crass struggle : greed, glitz, and gluttony in a wanna-have world / R.T. Naylor.
Author: Naylor, R. T., 1945-
Publication: Montréal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011.

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Description

vi, 487 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Through a series of outrageous but all too true stories, this book reveals the appalling consequences of consumerism run amok and its links to repetitive financial swindles and the alarming degradation of the biophysical environment.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-471) and index.

Contents

Preamble: Bacchanalian adventures with the ultra-rich -- The gold-diggers: precious metal, poisoned chalice -- Vulgari: flawed beauty in the gemstones business -- Icecapades: the diamond's darker facets -- Sketchy business: on art connoisseurs and con artists -- The chiselers: from tomb-raider to curator -- The numismaniacs: when big modern money chases little old coins -- The winophiliacs: uncorking the secrets of the wine trade -- Puff artists: behind the smokescreen of high-end cigars -- Afishionados: on fishy business in the fishing business -- Jailbirds: if parrots could really talk ... -- The hunter-gatherer society: from law of the jungle to maw of the market -- Goring the tusk trade: mammoth task, toothless law? -- Coda: from class struggle to crass struggle.

ISBN

9780773537712
0773537716
9780773586529
0773586520

LCCN

2011282710

OCLC

ocn689506746
689506746
SCSB-14213050

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library