When corporations rule the world /
This book describes the global spread of corporate power as a malignant cancer exercising a market tyranny that is gradually destroying lives, democratic institutions and the ecosystem for the benefit of greedy companies and investors.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Oakland, CA :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.,
[2015]
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Édition: | Third edition. |
Collection: | BK currents book.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Table des matières:
- Part I. Cowboys in a spaceship
- 1. From hope to crisis
- 2. End of the open frontier
- 3. The growth illusion
- part II. Contest for sovereignty
- 4. Rise of corporate power in America
- 5. Assault of the corporate libertarians
- 6. The decline of democratic pluralism
- 7. Illusions of the cloud minders
- part III. Corporate colonialism
- 8. Dreaming of global empires
- 9. Building elite consensus
- 10. Buying out democract
- 11. Marketing the world
- 12. Adjusting the poor
- 13. Guaranteeing corporate rights
- part IV. A rogue financial system
- 14. The money game
- 15. Predatory finance
- 16. Corporate cannibalism
- 17. Managed competition
- part V. No place for people
- 18. Race to the bottom
- 19. The end of inefficiency
- 20. People with no place
- part VI. To reclaim our power
- 21. The ecological revolution
- 22. Economies are for living
- 23. An awakened civil society
- 24. Agenda for democracy.