Suiting Themselves

How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda

Sharon Beder

258 pages, parution le 01/05/2006

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Résumé

Best-selling author Sharon Beder unleashes a penetrating exposé of how corporations are crafting the global agenda for their own benefit at the expense of billions of people, the environment and democracy.

'Sharon Beder has taken the taboo subjects of propaganda and censorship in free societies and exposed their insidious threat' John Pilger
'Beder's analysis is comprehensive, steely and clinical. She lifts the lid on an elaborate tapestry of lies, deceit, intimidation and destruction' Harold Pinter
'[Beder is] the scourge of the world's environment-damaging corporates and public relations bosses' Evening Post, New Zealand
'[Beder] is the master of the sound bite and is a communications rottweiler... [She] exposes conspiracies and scandals of the highest dimensions' Michael Pollak and Margaret MacNabb, Hale & Iremonger

In this brilliantly researched exposé, '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.

L'auteur - Sharon Beder

Sharon Beder is professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is an award-winning author of more than a hundred articles and several successful books including Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism, Power Play: The Fight for Control of the World's Electricity and Selling the Work Ethic: From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR.

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List of Boxes, Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
A Corporate Class
National Influence
International Coercion
Washington Consensus Down Under
From Public Service to Private Profit
The Trade Agenda
Trade in Services
Coercing Trade Agreements
Deregulating Investment
Globalization Versus Democracy
Conclusion: The Triumph of Corporate Rights
Bibliography
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Earthscan
Auteur(s)	Sharon Beder
Parution	01/05/2006
Nb. de pages	258
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	555g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781844073313
ISBN13	978-1-84407-331-3