Industrial-strength denial : eight stories of corporations defending the indefensible, from the slave trade to climate change /

"This book tells the stories of eight major campaigns of corporate denial-the lies, delusions, and rationalizations that emerge when people working in competitive, profit-driven group enterprises are faced with powerful evidence that they are causing harm. Tobacco is the poster-child of this ph...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Freese, Barbara (Barbara E.) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Industrial management > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Denial (Psychology) > Case studies.
Social responsibility of business > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Factory and trade waste > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Gestion d'entreprise > Aspect de l'environnement > Études de cas.
Dénégation (Psychologie) > Études de cas.
Entreprises > Responsabilité sociale > Aspect de l'environnement > Études de cas.
Déchets industriels > Aspect de l'environnement > Études de cas.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Denial (Psychology)
Factory and trade waste > Environmental aspects
Industrial management > Environmental aspects
anonymity.
business.
climate change.
cognition.
corporate denial.
corporate greed.
corporations.
deception.
delusion.
democracy.
ecology.
economics.
environment.
environmental destruction.
financial crisis.
fossil fuels.
global warming.
investment products.
leaded gasoline.
market forces.
money.
morality.
nonfiction.
ozone destroying chemicals.
ozone.
politics.
power.
psychology.
radium poisoning.
science.
slave trade.
social norms.
social psychology.
social trust.
tobacco.
toxic chemicals.
toxic waste.
tribalism.
unsafe cars.
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A dangerous phenomenon
  • A "more pleasing representation" : the alternate reality crafted by the slave lobby
  • "A wonderful stimulant" : radium, risk and responsibility
  • "The nut behind the wheel" : carmakers avoiding blame for highway deaths
  • "How wrong one can be" : bias, tribalism and leaded gasoline
  • "Our free enterprise system is at stake" : CFCs, ideology and manipulated uncertainty
  • "Psychological crutches" : tobacco's mass-production of denial
  • "Bottom line-nothing else matters" : the financial crisis and a culture of exploitation
  • A "deceitful, hysterical, out-of-control rampage" : fossil fuels, climate denial, and distrust-building
  • Conclusion: Shifting the social norm toward the public interest.

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