Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy by Robert Neuwirth

Author:Robert Neuwirth [Neuwirth, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Business & Economics, International, Political Science, Political Economy, Law, Commercial, General, Economics, Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 037542489X
Google: w7YJpJzyYmwC
Amazon: B004KPM1DA
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

A grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism supported some of the reporting.

This book owes a big debt to two of the world’s great collections—the New York Public Library and the Columbia University Libraries—and to the dollar carts (now sadly $2 per hardcover) and uncorrected proofs section of the Strand Bookstore.

My parents, Marilyn and Frank Neuwirth, and my brother Dave and his family—Hattie, Henry, and Eva—were always there when I needed them.

Andrea Haenggi is, now and forever, the center of my System D.

All acts of peddling, smuggling, haggling, higgling, hawking, street selling, bootlegging, forestalling, copying, pirating, dashing, shoe washing, and showing appreciation contained in this book—as well as all errors, omissions, and insufficiencies—are the sole responsibility of the author.

Finally, as Macedonio Fernández elegantly put it, “I repudiate all the blank pages published here as forgeries.”

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—The Wealth of Nations

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