Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods

The True Story of the World's Fastest Growing Crimewave

Tim Philips

250 pages, parution le 10/01/2006

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Résumé

Counterfeiting is one of the fastest growing industries in the world - it is a market worth more than $500 billion, or 7 per cent of the world's trade. In this compelling account, Knockoff exposes the truth behind the fakes and uncovers the shocking consequences of dealing in counterfeit goods. Travelling across the globe, Tim Phillips shows that counterfeiting isn't a victimless crime; it is an illegal global industry undermining the world's economies.

Based on interviews with victims, investigators and the people who sell counterfeits, Knockoff reveals the link between what we see as "innocent" fakes and organized crime. Phillips describes in detail how the counterfeiters' criminal network costs jobs, cripples developing countries, breeds corruption and violence and kills thousands of people every year. He shows that by turning a blind eye to the problem, we become accomplices to theft, extortion and murder.

This disturbing book will make you squirm in your seat if you've ever purchased counterfeit goods.

Sommaire

Introduction : the knockoff economy
The second-oldest profession
Brand bandits
Counterfeit alley
Sex and the purse party
Copying is a beautiful thing
A greater Europe
I thought I had seen everything
Where buyers and sellers meet
War and peace
Illusions
Lifting the stone
Ordinary criminals
Turning guns into CD burners
Making a scene
From Russia with Windows
The capital of bogus parts
Under the hood
Show us the dead bodies
Men in white coats
Dora Akunyili must not die
Conclusion : whack a mole

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Kogan Page
Auteur(s)	Tim Philips
Parution	10/01/2006
Nb. de pages	250
Format	17 x 24,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	575g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780749443795
ISBN13	978-0-7494-4379-5