The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality

Loretta Napoleoni, an economist, former Fulbright Scholar, and an expert on terror finance networks, offers an unfiltered visions of our current global economy—from counterfeiters and sex traders to gamers and the super-rich.

In ROGUE ECONOMICS (Seven Stories Press; April 2, 2008) Napoleoni lays out a brilliant historical assessment of the dark economic forces unleashed by the spread of democracy into geopolitical areas formerly ruled by oppressive or repressive regimes. The sex trade, the drug trade, the swift rise of the super-rich, and the growth of counterfeiters, she posits, will all inevitably rise during times of great economic upheaval, when politics can no longer inform the economic landscape. ROGUE ECONOMICS exposes the paradoxical economic connections of the new global marketplace.

LORETTA NAPOLEONI’s first book, the bestselling, Terror Inc: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism, traced the economics of the terror networks and has been translated into 12 languages; her second book, Insurgent Iraq was an early look at the growing insurgency as led by al-Zarqawi (the book came out just as American media and government were recognizing his power). One of the world’s leading experts on money laundering and terror financing, she holds an M.A. in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.Phil in Terrorism from the London School of Economics. For her work as a consultant for the commodities markets, she traveled regularly to Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, where she has met top financial and political leaders. She lives in Montanan and in Italy where she is a regular contributor to La Republica and other papers.

Foreign rights to Rogue Economics have been sold in nine countries.