A woman of the Left who garners praise from Noam Chomsky and Greg Palast at the same time as she is quoted respectfully inForbesand theWall Street Journal, economist LORETTA NAPOLEONI has been an advisor to national governments while being one of the harshest of critics of the underlying principles and policies of the current world banking system. Napoleoni's books, includingRogue Economics- Capitalism's New Reality(aPublishers WeeklyBest Book of 2008) andTerror Incorporated- Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism, have been international bestsellers and are translated into eighteen foreign languages. A longtime activist, a former Fulbright Scholar at Johns Hopkins' Paul H. Nitze School, a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics, and chair of the Club de Madrid countering terrorismfinancing group, Napoleoni has traveled widely in the Middle East and around the world. Her essays and columns have appeared in theChicago Tribune,La Stampa,La Repubblica,El Pais, andLe Monde. Her most recent book isMaonomics- How Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do.