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It's legal but it ain't right : harmful social consequences of legal industries /

Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too familiar with the tobacco industry's effect on public health and health care costs for smokers and nonsmokers, as well as the role of profit in the pharmaceutical industry&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Passas, Nikos, Goodwin, Neva R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2004.
Colección:Evolving values for a capitalist world.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A crime by any other name / Nikos Passas, Neva Goodwin
  • The cigarette industry / Richard A. Daynard
  • Externalities of the arms trade / Loretta Bondi
  • Firearms : another peculiar American institution / Tom Diaz
  • Leashing the "Dogs of War" / Herbert Howe
  • The costs of legalized gambling : an economic approach / John Warren Kindt
  • The licit and illicit trade in antiquities / Patty Gerstenblith
  • The high price of cheap food / Mark Ritchie
  • Accountability in the pesticide industry / Peter Riggs, Megan Waples
  • Titans of the Enron economy : the ten habits of highly defective corporations / Scott Klinger, Holly Sklar
  • Profiting through influence : the pharmaceutical and lobbying industries / Ken Siverstein, Jess Taylor.