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A Counterfeiter S Paradise
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Author : Ben Tarnoff
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-03-06
A Counterfeiter S Paradise written by Ben Tarnoff and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Business & Economics categories.
"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming." -The Washington Post As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency.
Trademark Counterfeiting Product Piracy And The Billion Dollar Threat To The U S Economy
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Author : Paul Paradise
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-09-30
Trademark Counterfeiting Product Piracy And The Billion Dollar Threat To The U S Economy written by Paul Paradise and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Called the business crime wave of the 21st century, trademark counterfeiting and product piracy are worldwide in scope and cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year. High technology and the globalization of business have made it possible to counterfeit and pirate a seemingly limitless number of products, from t-shirts, designer jeans, films and books to auto and airplane parts, and prescription drugs. The 1995-1996 trade dispute between the U.S. and China shows how serious the problem has become for American business and for U.S. diplomatic relations. Paradise explores the history of counterfeiting and piracy, shows how they are done, and the strategies that U.S. businesses are using to combat them. With interviews, commentary, and anecdotes by corporate attorneys, business leaders, and private investigators, this well-written book is essential for anyone interested in the damage that violations of intellectual property law are inflicting on world trade and what is being done to stop it. Called the business crime wave of the 21st century, trademark counterfeiting and product piracy are worldwide in scope and cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars every year. High technology and the globalization of business have made it possible to counterfeit and pirate a seemingly limitless number of products, from t-shirts, designer jeans, films and books to auto and airplane parts, and prescription drugs. The 1995-1996 trade dispute between the U.S. and China shows how serious the problem has become for American business and for U.S. diplomatic relations. Paradise explores the history of counterfeiting and piracy, shows how they are done, and the strategies that U.S. businesses are using to combat them. With interviews, commentary, and anecdotes by corporate attorneys, business leaders, and private investigators, this well-written book is essential for anyone interested in the damage that violations of intellectual property law are inflicting on world trade and what is being done to stop it. Paradise lays out the problem in Chapter 1 with a clear explanation of the differences between trademarks, copyrights, and patents, and the laws covering each. In Chapter 2 he looks at the role played by organized crime, gray market goods, the lack of intellectual property laws, and ultimately the threat to U.S. business. He discusses the recent investigations and disputes with China, and its aftermath throughout Southeast Asia. Chapter 4 focuses on the knockoff, chapter 5 on street peddlers and flea markets (and how merchants are retaliating), and chapter 6 on the tracking of counterfeiters. The entertainment industries and the pharmaceutical industries are then closely examined. He follows with equally comprehensive (and chilling) studies of automobile and aircraft parts counterfeiting and piracy in cyberspace. Paradise ends with a look at what is being done to counteract the inroads that piracy and counterfeiting have made into the global economy, and offers a provocative call for more and better efforts in the future.
Amazonia
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Author : Betty Jane Meggers
language : en
Publisher: Harlan Davidson
Release Date : 1971
Amazonia written by Betty Jane Meggers and has been published by Harlan Davidson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Science categories.
When first published in 1971, Amazonia was a pioneering contribution to the emerging field of cultural ecology. Betty Meggers argued that the Amazon's luxurious vegetation concealed significant limitations for human exploitation, placing a ceiling on pre-Columbian population density and social complexity. Amazonia in this revised new edition includes recent biological and climatic data. Ethnographic and archaeological evidence reemphasize the complexity of the ecosystem and broaden our understanding of past and present sophisticated adaptations among indigenous groups.
The Counterfeit Detective
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Author : Paul Paradise
language : en
Publisher: Koehler Books
Release Date : 2015-11-20
The Counterfeit Detective written by Paul Paradise and has been published by Koehler Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-20 with Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) categories.
When his best informant, John Hwa, is stabbed to death, Theo Jones believes the family 'curse' that has claimed generations of men in his family will come true. The Manhattan private investigator knows Hwa was likely killed in retaliation for a tip; if so, the killers will come after him next. He seems fated to die young and violently like his brother George, who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack, and his father in a construction accident. He realizes that specializing in knockoffs was his downfall. When he started out twenty years ago, the counterfeiters were street peddlers like Hwa selling knockoff Rolexes and designer jeans, now organized crime and violent criminals are selling fake automobile parts, birth control pills, and cancer medications. His life is in constant danger. He's determined to apprehend Hwa's killers and infiltrates an interstate knockoff ring--but his investigation is stymied after his wife, Linda, is terrorized by anonymous telephone death threats. She knows about the family curse and dislikes the dangerous profession. After a second phone threat, she flees with their son. He suffers a personal crisis and must decide what is real and what is fake, whether hanging onto his family is more important than a career as a private investigator. To answer that question, he'll have to survive a death trap, only then will he discover the caller's identity and the truth about the family curse.
Amazonia
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Author : Betty J. Meggers
language : en
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Release Date : 1996-07-17
Amazonia written by Betty J. Meggers and has been published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-17 with Science categories.
Review: "Epilogue reviews recent archaeological evidence for the precolumbian antiquity of social and settlement behavior of indigenous Amazonian groups"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Counterfeit Christians
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Author : Terence Basheer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Counterfeit Christians written by Terence Basheer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Real estate agents categories.
Amazonia
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Author : Betty J. Meggers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Amazonia written by Betty J. Meggers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
A Counterfeit Gringo S Take On Third World Poverty And Memories Of Mosquitia
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Author : Marc Rangel
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2003
A Counterfeit Gringo S Take On Third World Poverty And Memories Of Mosquitia written by Marc Rangel and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
Though born an expatriate U.S. citizen in Nicaragua, the author's hometown has an English name, Bluefields, and was the former capital of the onetime British protectorate called Mosquitia. Added to this exotic background, during his boyhood in the 1930's Nicaragua was under U.S. Marine Occupation and the country's entire Caribbean region was, in effect, an Anglo-American enclave, which led to his latino friends nicknaming him a gringo hechizo, or "Counterfeit Gringo." This dual heritage, with its intimate experiencing of both American and Third World lifestyles, is what makes his comments on the current cultural clash between the Western and non-Western worlds, as outlined in these three brief works, an unique assessment of this most challenging and dangerous international conflict.
Fake The Passing Fortunes Of A Counterfeiter
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Author : Robert Baudin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Fake The Passing Fortunes Of A Counterfeiter written by Robert Baudin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Baudin, Robert categories.
Counterfeit Itineraries In The Global South
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Author : Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-10
Counterfeit Itineraries In The Global South written by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with Social Science categories.
At the end of the 1970s, Chinese merchandise moved to Brazil via Paraguay, forming an on-the-margins-of-the-law trade chain involving the production, distribution, and consumption of cheap goods. Economic changes in the twenty-first century, including the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the growing importance of emerging economies, have had a dramatic effect on how this chain works, criminalizing and dismantling a trade system that had previously functioned in an organized form and stimulated the circulation of goods, money, and people at transnational levels. This book analyses how exchange networks that produced, distributed, and sold cheap manufactured products animated a huge and vibrant system from China to Brazil, examining the process at global, national, and local levels. From a global perspective, intellectual property is a powerful discourse that governs the world system by framing the notion of piracy as a criminal activity. But at the national level, how do nation-states resist and/or endorse, interpret, and apply a global perspective? And what effect does that have on how ordinary people organize their lives around this system? Interweaving discourse on transnational traders and producers, national projects, and international institutions, Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South presents low-income traders not as passive victims of globalization, but as active actors in the distribution of cheap goods across borders in the Global South. Based on fifteen years of ethnographic field work in China and Brazil, Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South will be of interest to scholars of economic anthropology, development studies, political economy, Latin America studies, Chinese studies, and socio-legal studies.