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Unequal protection : how corporations became "people"--and you can fight back /
"Hartmann tells a startling story of the rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights as corporations use the Fourteenth Amendment to further their own agendas"--Provided by publisher.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
Berrett-Koehler,
©2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. |
| Colección: | BK currents book.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The battle to save democracy
- pt. I, Corporations take over. The deciding moment? ; The corporate conquest of America
- pt. II, From the birth of American democracy through the birth of corporate personhood. Banding together for the common good ; The Boston tea party revealed ; Jefferson versus the corporate aristocracy ; The early role of corporations in America ; The people's masters ; Corporations go global ; The court takes the presidency ; Protecting corporate liars ; Corporate control of politics
- pt. III, Unequal consequences. Unequal uses for the Bill of rights ; Unequal regulation ; Unequal protection from risk ; Unequal taxes ; Unequal responsibility for crime ; Unequal privacy ; Unequal citizenship and access to the commons ; Unequal wealth ; Unequal trade ; Unequal media ; Unequal influence
- pt. IV, Restoring personhood to people. Capitalists and Americans speak out for community ; End corporate personhood ; A new entrepreneurial boom ; A democratic marketplace ; Restoring government of, by, and for the people.