The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism

Second Edition by David Lester

The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism is a Harper’s Index of the havoc to humanity and the environment caused by global economic inequality.

  • Percentage of the world’s population who live without electricity: 40
  • Amount spent annually subsidizing power stations that worsen global warming: $100 billion.
  • Number of billionaires who have greater wealth than the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 per cent of the world’s people: 360.
  • Es konnte auch anders sein. It could just as well be otherwise.

Part of our Semaphore Series.

Subject Political Science/Reference
Published December 2006
Price $10.95 CDN
Pages 112 pp (Paper)
Dimensions 4″ × 7″ × 0.25″
ISBN-10 1-894037-30-8
ISBN-13 978-1894037-30-3

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