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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. Her name is Kimberly K. Wong. Her last name is spelled H-O-A-N-G. And she just published a book, September 6th, 2022. Title of the book is Spider-Web Capitalism, How Global Elites Exploute Frontier Markets. And we were talking kind of in the pre-show. |
0:22.2 | I just had Hal Weitzman on. |
0:24.2 | Last month, we talked about all the kind of subterranean, |
0:28.0 | maybe sketchy things involved in Delaware's, |
0:31.2 | kind of corporate environment. |
0:32.9 | But I think this book fits in as a great kind of follow on to that discussion because it's about some dealings that maybe not as well known to the public. |
0:43.4 | But this is not Kimberly's first book. |
0:46.6 | She also published back in 2014, a book titled Human Trafficking, Reconcerned, Rethinking the Problem, En envisioning new solutions. And then also in |
0:56.2 | 2015, dealing in desire, Asian ascendancy, Western decline, and the hidden currencies of |
1:02.5 | global sex work. And Kimberly Wang is an associate professor of sociology at the College of the |
1:10.8 | University of Chicago. She's the author of the books that I just mentioned. She's an associate professor of sociology at the College of the University of Chicago. |
1:12.1 | She's the author of the books that I just mentioned. |
1:14.8 | She's also had articles that have appeared in American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Gender and Society, Context, |
1:22.9 | the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and Sexualities as well as articles for the BBC. |
1:28.9 | And her homepage, her website, is her full name. |
1:33.6 | So it's Kimberlyk.wong.com. |
1:35.5 | And I'll put that in the show notes as long as her Twitter handle. |
1:38.2 | So if you have any questions about the book or any follow-on questions, you can reach out to |
1:41.5 | it, Kimberly K. Huang. |
1:43.3 | But again, the book we're going to talk |
1:44.6 | about today, just published September 6, 2022 is Spider-Web Capitalism, How Global Elites Exploite Frontier |
1:51.0 | Market. So Kimberly, Kay Wong, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. |
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