When corporations rule the world
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When corporations rule the world
Kumarian Press , Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c1995
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-359) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Addresses the issue of modern corporate power, exposing the harmful effects gobalization is having not only on economics, but also on politics, society and the environment. The book documents the devastating consequences as corporations recreate values and institutions to serve their own narrow financial interests, and outlines a strategy for creating localized economies that empower people and communities within a system of global cooperation.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Cowboys in a spaceship: from hope to crisis
- end of the open frontier
- the growth illusion. Part 2 Contest for sovereignty: rise of corporate power in America
- assault of the corporate libertarians
- decline of democratic pluralism
- illusions of the cloud minders. Part 3 Corporate colonialism: dreaming of global empires
- building elite consensus
- buying out democracy
- marketing the world
- adjusting the poor
- guaranteeing corporate rights. Part 4 A rogue financial system: the money game
- predatory finance
- corporate cannibalism
- managed competition. Part 5 No place for people: race to the bottom
- the end of inefficiency
- people with no place. Part 6 Reclaiming our power: the ecological revolution
- good living
- an awakened civil society
- agenda for change.
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