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Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Exploitation, Unjust Enrichment, Illicit Transactions, and Wrongful Taking -- The Unjust Value, Plus Damages, Is Initially, Roughly Judged to be 30 Trillion or More -- Measurement -- Conclusion -- Part I Historical Context -- 2 The Slave Trade, Imperialism, Colonialism and Neocolonialism: The Rise of the Western and World Economy, and Unjust Enrichment -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- 3 Wealth Transfer and Long-term Damages-The Case of European Expropriation in East Africa -- The Global Setting for Wealth Transfer -- Political Economy of the Indian Ocean before and after Mercantilism -- Wealth Transfer and Consequences -- Bibliography -- Part II Who Benefits and How Much-From Wrongful Taking, Illicit Transactions, and Hidden Subsidies? -- 4 Methods of Estimating Trade Misinvoicing: Price-Filter Method, Partner-Country Method, and Modified Partner-Country Method -- Introduction -- Misinvoicing and Double Invoicing of Merchandise Trade -- Trade Misinvoicing and Capital Transfer -- Double Invoicing and Capital Transfer -- Price-Filter Method (PFM) -- The Method -- Examples of Misinvoiced US Imports and US Exports -- PFM for Estimation of Misinvoicing and Potential Capital Flight -- Partner-Country Method (PCM) -- The Method -- Examples: The PCM Applied to Individual Countries -- Modified Partner-Country Method -- Gold Doré Export from Peru Revisited -- Relationship Between the Two Methods -- A Modified Partner-Country Method (mPCM) -- Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 5 Income and Wealth-Transfer Effects of Resource Exploitation: A Theory of Indemnities to Africa -- Introduction -- Definitions -- Economists on Reparations -- Ricardian Rent Theory: The Distributive Shares of Income -- Ricardian Economic Growth Theory.

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