La deslocalización de la riqueza
These activities, often secreted at sea, also involve working relationships, finance, pleasure, waste management, energy and safety. Powerful and widespread offshore worlds have been generated that pose enormous challenges for both governments and citizens. This book documents the various patterns of offshoring economics, sociability, politics and the environment. In each case, offshoring creates new patterns of power, reduces the responsibilities of the powerful "offshore class" and limits the conditions for democratic governance. Beyond the coast, beyond sight, on the horizon are some of the most troubling processes and metaphors for which much of life has become opaque and depends on secrets and lies.
By analyzing these patterns and processes, Urry sheds new light on the hidden worlds of offshoring and exposes the dark side of globalization. The book concludes by considering...read more
