{"id":339,"date":"2006-07-06T02:05:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T06:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=339"},"modified":"2018-08-22T02:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T06:43:22","slug":"14698-%c2%a0%c2%a0-raymond-w-baker-capitalism%e2%80%99s-achilles-heel-dirty-money-and-how-to-renew-the-free-market-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"14698.&nbsp;(Raymond W. Baker) Capitalism\u2019s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This book, by the author\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtive expert on glob\u00adal mon\u00adey laun\u00adder\u00ading, out\u00adlines the involve\u00adment of the gov\u00adern\u00adments, cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions, and banks in the pro\u00adcess\u00ading of crim\u00adi\u00adnal mon\u00adey on a vast scale. But he is more con\u00adcerned with the sys\u00adtem of false book\u00adkeep\u00ading with which the world\u2019s poor\u00adest regions are sys\u00adtem\u00adat\u00adi\u00adcally drained of cap\u00adi\u00adtal. Bak\u00ader is no philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal light\u00adweight: he remains trapped in a false sys\u00adtem of def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtions and ter\u00admi\u00adnol\u00adogy, but he knows that there is some\u00adthing wrong with it. He cor\u00adrectly points out that the cur\u00adrent Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive ide\u00adol\u00adogy of glob\u00adal finance has noth\u00ading to do with Adam Smith\u2019s the\u00ado\u00adries of free mar\u00adkets, which it vio\u00adlates in every par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, but is descend\u00aded, instead, from the moral blank\u00adness of Jere\u00admy Bentham\u2019s platophistries. But he can\u00adnot pull him\u00adself out of his received frame\u00adwork to make the nec\u00ades\u00adsary next steps in analy\u00adsis. There is no doubt, how\u00adever, of his basic decency..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book, by the author\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtive expert on glob\u00adal mon\u00adey laun\u00adder\u00ading, out\u00adlines the involve\u00adment of the gov\u00adern\u00adments, cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions, and banks in the pro\u00adcess\u00ading of crim\u00adi\u00adnal mon\u00adey on a vast scale. But he is more con\u00adcerned with the sys\u00adtem of false bookkeeping&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=339\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9520,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/9520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}