| Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda Contributor(s): Beder, Sharon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844073319 ISBN-13: 9781844073313 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: Best-selling author Sharon Beder unleashes a penetrating expos?? of how corporations are crafting the global agenda for their own benefit at the expense of billions of people, the environment and democracy.In this brilliantly researched expos??, ???communications Rottweiler??? Sharon Beder blasts open the backrooms and boardrooms to expose how the international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. Beder shows how they created business associations and ???think tanks??? in the 1970s to drive public policy, forced the worldwide privatization and deregulation of public services in the 1980s and 1990s (enabling a massive transfer of ownership and control over essential services) and, still not satisfied, have worked relentlessly since the late 1990s to rewrite the very rules of the global economy to funnel wealth and power into their pockets. Want a globalized and homogenized world of conflict, poverty and massive environmental degradation run by a corporate oligarchy that wipes its feet on democracy? Or a democratic world, where poverty is history, companies work for people and clean water is a right not a privilege you pay for? Beder??'s message is clear--it??'s your world, and it??'s time to fight for it. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy - Business & Economics | International - General |
| Dewey: 338.9 |
| LCCN: 2005029039 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.48" W x 9.48" (1.22 lbs) 272 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In this brilliantly researched expos 'communications Rottweiler' Sharon Beder blasts open the backrooms and boardrooms to reveal how the international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. Beder shows how they created business associations andthink tanks in the 1970s to drive public policy, forced the worldwide privatization and deregulation of public services in the 1980s and 1990s (enabling a massive transfer of ownership and control over essential services) and, still not satisfied, have worked relentlessly since the late 1990s to rewrite the very rules of the global economy to funnel wealth and power into their pockets. Want a globalized and homogenized world of conflict, poverty and massive environmental degradation run by a corporate oligarchy that wipes its feet on democracy? Or a democratic world, where poverty is history, companies work for people and clean water is a right, not a privilege you pay for? Beder's message is clear - it's your world, and it's time to fight for it. |