  Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System
ISBN: 978-0-471-64488-0
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438 pages
August 2005
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Chapter 1: Global Capitalism: Savior or Predator?
PART I: Illegality: We Like the Money.
Chapter 2: Playing the Game.
The Dirty-Money User Manual.
You’re in Business.
Chapter 3: Dirty Money at Work.
The Corruption Industry.
The Criminal Component: Drugs, Thugs, and Terrorists.
Global Commerce and Tax Evasion: Coin of the Realm.
Chapter 4: Magnitudes and Misunderstandings.
How Much Money?
A Failure Rate of 99.9 Percent.
Well-Intentioned Efforts.
The Patriot Act.
Dirty Money Is on the Rise.
Chasing Terrorists’ Money.
Ill-Intentioned Loopholes.
Haven and Secrecy Structure.
Falsified Pricing Structure.
We Like the Money.
Challenge.
PART II: Inequality: The Gap Matters.
Chapter 5: The Global Divide.
The Quintile Canyon.
Measure for Measure.
It’s an Uncertain World.
The Monkey Wrench.
Chapter 6: “I Don’t Understand” and “Don’t Tell Anyone”.
Myths.
“Don’t Tell Anyone”.
Corruption—At Long Last!
Filling Western Coffers: Mum’s the Word.
Debtor’s Prison.
What If?
Intellectual Gap or Character Gap?
Chapter 7: It’s the 70 to 90 Percent that Matters.
It Can’t Last.
Convergence?
The Gap Matters.
Challenge.
PART III: Disutility: Bentham KOs Smith.
Chapter 8: The Anguish of Adam Smith.
Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Wealth of Nations.
Invisible Hand.
Das Adam Smith Problem.
The Tears of Adam Smith.
Chapter 9: The Joys of Jeremy Bentham.
Jurisprudence.
Utilitarianism.
Related Interests.
John Stuart Mill.
Problems.
Chapter 10: Philosophy Becomes Culture.
The Great Infusion.
Twentieth-Century Utility.
Twentieth-Century Utilitarianism.
Inoperable Doctrine, Deadly Practice.
Disutility.
Challenge.
PART IV: Run It Right: Trust the System.
Chapter 11: Capitalism’s Achilles Heel.
Chapter 12: Spreading Prosperity.
Delegitimizing Dirty Money.
Tougher on Corruption.
Reining in the Support Structure.
Mispricing and Transfer Pricing.
Capitalism’s Contribution to Slashing Inequality.
“. . . When You Pay Me What You Owe Me”.
Reconstitute the World Bank.
Justice First.
Chapter 13: Renewing Capitalism.
Acknowledgments.
Notes.
Index.
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