Stealth Of Nations - Robert Neuwirth

* Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones auto parts and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel. bull; Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers electronics and clothing across the border to Brazil. bull; Scores of laid-off San Franciscans working without any licenses use Twitter to sell home-cooked foods. bull; Dozens of major multinationals sell products through unregistered kiosks and street vendors around the world. hen we think of the informal economy we tend to think of crime- prostitution gun running drug trafficking. Stealth of Nations opens up this underground realm showing how the worldwide informal economy deals mostly in legal products and is in fact a ten-trillion-dollar industry making it the second-largest economy in the world after that of the United States. aving penetrated this closed world and persuaded its inhabitants to open up to him Robert Neuwirth makes clear that this informal method of transaction dates back as far as humans have existed and traded that it provides essential services and crucial employme

TITLE: Stealth Of Nations

AUTHOR: Robert Neuwirth

SKU: 9780307279989

PUBLISHER: Random House USA Inc

DATE PUBLISHED: 15/10/2012

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 304

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 132 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm

WEIGHT: 291 gr