Crass struggle : glitz, greed, and gluttony in a wanna-have world / R.T. Naylor.
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.
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Montréal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2011.
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Table of 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.