R.T. Naylor is a professor of economics at McGill University in Montreal. His books include Hot Money and the Politics of Debt, Wages of Crime, and most recently, Satanic Purses: Money, Myth and Misinformation in the War on Terror.
Moisés Naím identifies a new connection between world economics and world politics: ‘Global criminal activities are transforming the international system.’ This transformation, he argues, requires a wholly new response: biometrics and other new technologies are needed to track perpetrators; fancier security devices will be needed to detect fakes and copies; and...
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