Musikinstrumente

Produktbeschreibung

Non, il n'est pas fasciné par le mal, mais il défend autant la présomption d'innocence que le droit - pour les criminels de tout bord -à une juste peine qui ne varie pas du simple au double d'une cour d'assises à l'autre.
Non, il n'est pas l'ennemi des magistrats, mais il s'interroge sur l'absence de la notion d'humanité dans leur serment, alors qu'elle figure dans celui des avocats. Car ceux qui lui confient leur destin sont aussi des êtres humains, dont la ligne de vie a parfois de quoi inspirer aux jurés une certaine clémence.
Non, il n'est pas contre l'État, mais il est souvent révolté par le fonctionnement de la Justice. Comme personne ne l'a fait auparavant, il raconte les petits arrangements, les influences et les pièges qui peuvent biaiser un verdict. À travers les anecdotes et les souvenirs édifiants des grands procès d'assises auxquels il a participé, il dresse le portrait d'un système judiciaire implacable, au sein duquel la défense n'est guère que tolérée, même quand elle tente désespérément d'éviter les erreurs judiciaires.




« J'ai décidé de devenir avocat à quinze ans. C'était le 28 juillet 1976 et j'avais entendu à la radio que Christian Ranucci, l'homme du "pull-over rouge", avait été exécutéà l'aube. Ce n'est pas le récit d'une vocation que je fais ici, mais d'une sorte de fatalité. Je suis condamnéà plaider. »

Kurzbeschreibung

? Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.
 
? Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.
 
? Scores of laid-off San Franciscans, working without any licenses, use Twitter to sell home-cooked foods.
 
? Dozens of major multinationals sell products through unregistered kiosks and street vendors around the world.
 
When we think of the informal economy, we tend to think of crime: prostitution, gun running, drug trafficking. Stealth of Nations opens up this underground realm, showing how the worldwide informal economy deals mostly in legal products and is, in fact, a ten-trillion-dollar industry, making it the second-largest economy in the world, after that of the United States.
 
Having penetrated this closed world and persuaded its inhabitants to open up to him, Robert Neuwirth makes clear that this informal method of transaction dates back as far as humans have existed and traded, that it provides essential services and crucial employment that fill the gaps in formal systems, and that this unregulated market works smoothly and effectively, with its own codes and unwritten rules.
 
Combining a vivid travelogue with a firm grasp on global economic strategy?along with a healthy dose of irreverence and skepticism toward conventional perceptions?Neuwirth gives us an eye-opening account of a world that is always operating around us, hidden in plain sight.

From the Hardcover edition.

Kurzbeschreibung

? Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.
 
? Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.
 
? Scores of laid-off San Franciscans, working without any licenses, use Twitter to sell home-cooked foods.
 
? Dozens of major multinationals sell products through unregistered kiosks and street vendors around the world.
 
When we think of the informal economy, we tend to think of crime: prostitution, gun running, drug trafficking. Stealth of Nations opens up this underground realm, showing how the worldwide informal economy deals mostly in legal products and is, in fact, a ten-trillion-dollar industry, making it the second-largest economy in the world, after that of the United States.
 
Having penetrated this closed world and persuaded its inhabitants to open up to him, Robert Neuwirth makes clear that this informal method of transaction dates back as far as humans have existed and traded, that it provides essential services and crucial employment that fill the gaps in formal systems, and that this unregulated market works smoothly and effectively, with its own codes and unwritten rules.
 
Combining a vivid travelogue with a firm grasp on global economic strategy?along with a healthy dose of irreverence and skepticism toward conventional perceptions?Neuwirth gives us an eye-opening account of a world that is always operating around us, hidden in plain sight.

From the Hardcover edition.