Guido Preparata
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| Born | 1968 |
| Founder of | Guido Preparata's web site |
Guido Giacomo Preparata was born 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in the United States, France, and Italy. He obtained a BS in Economics at the Libera University degli Studi Sociali (LUISS, Rome, Italy), an M-Phil in criminology at the University of Cambridge (UK), a Master's degree in Economics, and a PhD in Political Economy & Public Policy, both from the University of Southern California (USC, Los Angeles, USA).
Career
From 2000 to 2008 Preparata was an Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Washington, USA. He worked as a research associate at the Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California), and the research division of Bank of Italy's Department of Supervision and Regulation.
In 2005, as a visiting professor of economics and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Jordan, in Amman, he conducted research on Political Islam, "terrorism" and Islamic economics. At present (2012) he serves as a lecturer in criminology at Kwantlen Polythechnic University in Vancouver, Canada.
Bibliography
Preparata is the author of, amongst other essays:
- Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America made the Third Reich (Pluto Press, 2005) ISBN074532181X
- The Ideology of Tyranny: The Use of Neo-Gnostic Myth in American Politics, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) ISBN 0230114946
Documents by Guido Preparata
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
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| Document:Conjuring Hitler - Chapter 6 | book extract | 2005 | The Great Game Adolf Hitler WW2 | The concluding chapter of Guido Preparata's seminal work of World War II historical revision - Conjuring Hitler |
| Document:Conjuring Hitler - Four years on | article | 5 November 2008 | The Great Game Adolf Hitler WW2 | Guido Preparata's afterword to "Conjuring Hitler", his seminal work on the origins of World War II. It was written to mark publication of the book in German, some four years after the original English edition. Rueful insights into the academic suppression of work which challenges the rigidly enforced victors' orthodox narrative of the greatest man-made humanitarian disaster in history. |
| Document:Conjuring Hitler - Preface | book extract | 2005 | The Great Game Adolf Hitler WW2 | The preface to Guido Preparata's seminal work of World War II historical revision - Conjuring Hitler |
| Document:Guido Preparata 2012 Interview | interview | 30 June 2012 | Deep politics Guido Preparata WW2 | |
| File:Of Money Part 1.pdf | essay | 2008 | Petrodollar Bretton Woods system WTO | Part 1 outlines the history of global monetary/financial systems since the end of WWI and their progressive domination by the United States Federal Reserve system. The essay explains any move by non-WTO countries to conduct trade in currencies other than Dollars, or construct non-Dollar trading blocks, have been so ruthlessly dealt with by the US and its NATO Allies. |
| File:Of Money Part 2.pdf | essay | 2009 | Banking Demurrage | In this second part of the essay, the case is made for a 'Perishable currency' regime as a means of dealing with the fundamental problems of our existing interest bearing perpetual money. |
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| Document:Guido Preparata 2012 Interview | interview | 30 June 2012 | Guido Preparata Lars Schall |
