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Shadow Networks
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Author : Francisco Louçã
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-26
Shadow Networks written by Francisco Louçã and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-26 with Business & Economics categories.
The 2007-08 financial crisis surprised many economists and the public. But how did the crisis come about, why was it so deep, and why has the clean-up been so slow and painful? Many accounts of the crisis focus on renegade activity in marginal financial sectors. Shadow Networks challenges this pervading view and sets out to demonstrate that, far from a dissident branch, the shadow finance that initiated the crisis is tightly networked with, and highly profitable for, bank-based finance. The collapse was not an accident, but baked into the system of finance from the start. Shadow Networks traces the complex web of power that caused crisis and gives vivid descriptions of the actors in the quarter century leading up to 2007 to explain how the now decade-long crisis took shape. Shadow Networks: Financial Disorder and the System that Caused Crisis is a probing examination of the roles of the powerful elite. It traces the networks and institutions that support a finance-focused, market centered model of economy and society from their ascendancy to their surprising resilience in the face of manifest failures.
Shadow Networks
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Author : Tobias Holzlehner
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2014
Shadow Networks written by Tobias Holzlehner and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Business & Economics categories.
After the breakdown of the Soviet Union new cultural and economic practices emerged out of the fragments of the collapsed state. Exploring economic activities in the Russian Far East, this book focuses on new informal economic practices and non-regulated commercial organizations and seeks to understand the emerging roles of entrepreneurs, organized crime, and the state in post Soviet Russia. Based on anthropological fieldwork in the Russian Far East, especially in the port city of Vladivostok, Holzlehner focuses on large open-air markets, on so-called shuttle traders that cross the Russian-Chinese border on a regular basis to import cheap consumer goods for local markets, and on different organized crime groups, which evolved during the transition period in the Russian Far East. Based on the analysis of social networks and focusing on different qualities of relational ties, the boo proposes a methodological and theoretical apparatus to understand the mechanics and dynamics of informal economic networks more thoroughly.
Shadow Network
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Author : Anne Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Shadow Network written by Anne Nelson 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 2021-05-11 with History categories.
“Reveals a political trend that threatens both our form of government and our species.” - Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY "Riveting.... Want to understand how so many Americans turned against truth? Read this book." Nancy Maclean, author of DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and gun lobbyists met in a Washington suburb to coordinate their attack on civil liberties and the social safety net. They called their coalition the Council for National Policy. Over four decades, this elite club has become a strategic nerve center for channeling money and mobilizing votes. Its secretive membership rolls represent a high-powered roster of fundamentalists, oligarchs, and their allies, from Oliver North, Ed Meese, and Tim LaHaye in the Council's early days to Kellyanne Conway, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, and the DeVos and Mercer families today. In Shadow Network, award-winning author and media analyst Anne Nelson chronicles this astonishing history and illuminates the coalition's key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy's information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting its members control. And she reveals how the group has collaborated with the Koch brothers to outfit Radical Right organizations with state-of-the-art apps and a shared pool of captured voter data - outmaneuvering the Democratic Party in a digital arms race whose result has yet to be decided. In a time of stark and growing threats to our most valued institutions and democratic freedoms, Shadow Network is essential reading.
Seoul Shadows The Shadow Network
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Author : Yuna Lim
language : en
Publisher: Yuna Lim
Release Date : 2025-04-24
Seoul Shadows The Shadow Network written by Yuna Lim and has been published by Yuna Lim this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-24 with Fiction categories.
Betrayal. Deception. Control. They're in your head. Your music. Your soul. Six months after exposing Director Jung, Ji-soo stumbles upon "The Maestros" – a shadow organization weaponizing K-pop's global influence through embedded frequencies designed to manipulate millions. When Eclipse's Bangkok performance triggers unexpected resistance, The Maestros abruptly cancel their tour and subject the group to sinister "re-harmonization" protocols. Hong Kong's neon alleys hide deadly secrets. Bangkok's stages conceal mind-altering technology. As Ji-soo races to rescue Eclipse from a hidden "wellness facility," she discovers the horrifying truth – her own father helped create the very technology now being used against them. With trust evaporating, Ji-soo can't ignore the evidence: Min-ho's unexplained disappearances, Yuna's family connections, and Hyun-woo's suspicious technical knowledge. Who's really pulling the strings? When HALO fans worldwide begin detecting the manipulation, they transform from spectators to soldiers in a war they barely understand. The Maestros' influence reaches government offices, entertainment companies, and broadcasting stations – nowhere is safe. Racing against time, Ji-soo orchestrates a daring infiltration to free Eclipse before the Harmony Festival unleashes The Maestros' ultimate control mechanism on an unsuspecting global audience. In this pulse-pounding second installment of the Cipher Seoul trilogy, the battle for free will unfolds through Asia's most explosive venues. The music never stops – but who's really conducting the symphony?
Shadow Networks
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Author : Francisco Louçã
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018
Shadow Networks written by Francisco Louçã and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Business & Economics categories.
Many accounts of the financial crisis focus on renegade activity in marginal financial sectors. This book argues that far from this pervading view the shadow finance that initiated the crisis is tightly networked with bank-based finance. It traces these networks to explain how the now decade-long crisis took shape.
The Shadow Network By Ajay Salve
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Author : Ajay Salve
language : en
Publisher: Salve Publication Pvt. Ltd
Release Date : 2025-01-29
The Shadow Network By Ajay Salve written by Ajay Salve and has been published by Salve Publication Pvt. Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-29 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The Shadow Network is a story inspired by the countless battles fought, both visible and invisible, by those who strive for justice in an often unjust world. It is a tale that explores the delicate balance between light and darkness, where every decision has a consequence, and where the quest for truth comes at a steep price. The idea for this story came from a simple but powerful question: What happens when the lines between good and evil blur so completely that even the most well-intentioned must question their own morality? What happens when the institutions we trust most are corrupted from within, and the very fabric of society is threatened by those who hide in the shadows? Adrian, the protagonist, embodies the struggle between personal vengeance and the broader, more noble fight for justice. His journey is not just physical—facing adversaries, solving mysteries, and uncovering dark secrets—but emotional and psychological as well. It’s about understanding the depth of human nature: how pain can drive one toward destruction, but also how resilience can lead to redemption. This story, like any tale of this nature, is both a reflection of our world and a departure from it. While the conspiracy at the heart of the plot may feel fictional, the themes explored are all too real. In a world where power often goes unchecked and corruption lurks behind every corner, it’s easy to feel as though the fight for truth is futile. But it is in these moments of darkness that true heroes emerge, not necessarily those who wear capes, but those who choose to stand up and face the overwhelming odds. The Shadow Network is more than just an action-packed thriller; it’s a meditation on the human condition, on loyalty, trust, betrayal, and the unrelenting pursuit of justice. It is about discovering strength in the face of adversity, questioning everything we know, and, ultimately, finding light even when it seems impossible. To those who have ever felt powerless against the forces that govern the world, this story is for you. To those who have fought in the shadows to right a wrong, this story is for you. And to those who believe that hope, no matter how fleeting, can change the world, this story is for you. As you turn these pages, may you find inspiration in the characters' resilience, and may you be reminded that no matter how dark the world may seem, there is always a fight worth fighting. Welcome to The Shadow Network.
Shadow Libraries
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Author : Joe Karaganis
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-05-04
Shadow Libraries written by Joe Karaganis and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-04 with Education categories.
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks. From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the history of policy battles over access to education in the post–World War II era and at the narrower versions that have played out in relation to research and textbooks, from library policies to book subsidies to, more recently, the several “open” publication models that have emerged in the higher education sector. From the bottom up, Shadow Libraries explores how, simply, students get the materials they need. It maps the ubiquitous practice of photocopying and what are—in many cases—the more marginal ones of buying books, visiting libraries, and downloading from unauthorized sources. It looks at the informal networks that emerge in many contexts to share materials, from face-to-face student networks to Facebook groups, and at the processes that lead to the consolidation of some of those efforts into more organized archives that circulate offline and sometimes online— the shadow libraries of the title. If Alexandra Elbakyan's Sci-Hub is the largest of these efforts to date, the more characteristic part of her story is the prologue: the personal struggle to participate in global scientific and educational communities, and the recourse to a wide array of ad hoc strategies and networks when formal, authorized means are lacking. If Elbakyan's story has struck a chord, it is in part because it brings this contradiction in the academic project into sharp relief—universalist in principle and unequal in practice. Shadow Libraries is a study of that tension in the digital era. Contributors Balázs Bodó, Laura Czerniewicz, Miroslaw Filiciak, Mariana Fossatti, Jorge Gemetto, Eve Gray, Evelin Heidel, Joe Karaganis, Lawrence Liang, Pedro Mizukami, Jhessica Reia, Alek Tarkowski
Shadows Of War
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Author : Carolyn Nordstrom
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-05-17
Shadows Of War written by Carolyn Nordstrom and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-17 with Social Science categories.
In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front lines, revealing both the visible and the hidden realities of war in the twenty-first century. Shadows of War is grounded in ethnographic research carried out at the epicenters of political violence on several continents. Its pages are populated not only with the perpetrators and victims of war but also with the scoundrels, silent heroes, and average families who live their lives in the midst of explosive violence. War reconfigures our most basic notions of humanity, Nordstrom demonstrates. This book, of crucial importance at the present moment, shows that war is enmeshed in struggles over the very foundations of the sovereign state, the crafting of economic empires both legal and illegal, and innovative searches for peace. Nordstrom describes the multi-trillion-dollar international financial networks that support warfare. She traces the entangled routes by which illegal drugs, precious gems, weapons, basic food supplies, and pharmaceuticals are moved by an international cast of businesspeople, profiteers, and black-market operators. Shadows of War demonstrates how the experiences of both the architects of war and of ordinary people are deleted from media accounts and replaced with stories about soldiers, weapons, and territory. For the first time, this book retrieves from the shadows the faces of those whose stories seldom reach the light of international recognition.
You Re Muted
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Author : Mark Nunes
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2024-07-11
You Re Muted written by Mark Nunes 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 2024-07-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Through the frame of Zoom, this collection of essays examines the rapid emergence of videoconferencing in everyday life under COVID-19, its preexisting performative logic, and the ongoing implication of these practices for millions of individuals and institutions. The year 2023 marked the end of the World Health Organization's classification of the COVID-19 outbreak as a “public health emergency of international concern,” yet many of the organizational and institutional restructurings that occurred in the rapid response to the pandemic have remained firmly in place. The prevalence of videoconferencing in everyday life marks one such instance, not only highlighting the dramatic social and cultural transformations that occurred during a period of lockdowns, social distancing, and stay-at-home orders, but also serving as an index of all that has emerged as the “new normal” since March 2020. Overnight, it seemed, Zoom emerged as the default videoconferencing platform, rapidly morphing from brand name to eponymous generic. While this volume focuses predominantly on Zoom and its place in the collective imagination and daily practice of those of us whose lives are profoundly caught up in digital networks, many of these insights presented here apply to other videoconferencing platforms as well, and a supporting logic that has governed neoliberal lives since long before the first lockdowns began. The twelve chapters in this collection explore how videoconferencing platforms in general, and Zoom in particular, have provided individuals and institutions new modes of “engagement,” while at the same time reifying, normalizing, and domesticating modes of surveillance, control, and marginalization that have been part and parcel of a networked-based performative logic for nearly a century.
Observing The Arctic
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Author : Chih Y. Woon
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2020-08-28
Observing The Arctic written by Chih Y. Woon and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-28 with Political Science categories.
Addressing the growing economic, political, and cultural presence of Asian states in the Arctic region, this timely book looks at how that presence is being evaluated and engaged with by Arctic states and their northern communities. A diverse range of authors addresses the question that underpins so much of this interest in Asian engagement with the northern latitudes: what do Asian countries want to gain from the Arctic?