Hal Weitzman
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The mistakes the United States has made in Latin America-and the high price it will pay for them. Could it be that for the first time in history, the United States needs Latin America more than the other way round? Since the early 1800s, the United States regarded the region as its "backyard," but in the past decade South America's leaders have increasingly snubbed US efforts to persuade them to adopt free-market economics and sign trade agreements....
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"One of The Economist's Best Books to Read to Understand Financial Crime" Hal Weitzman is executive director for intellectual capital at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and editor-in-chief of Chicago Booth Review. He also teaches MBA students and business executives at Chicago Booth. A former Financial Times editor and foreign correspondent, he is the author of Latin Lessons.
How the "First State" has enabled international crime,...
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The legal home to over a million companies, Delaware has more registered businesses than residents. Why do virtually all of the biggest corporations in the United States register there? This book reveals how a systematic enterprise lies behind the business-friendly corporate veneer, one that has kept the state afloat financially by diverting public funds away from some of the poorest people in the United States and supporting dictators and criminals...