The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy Hertz Noreena
The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy Hertz Noreena Of the world's 100 largest economies, 51 are now corporations, only 49 are nation-states. Yet few of us understand…
Specifikacia The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy Hertz Noreena
The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy Hertz Noreena
Of the world's 100 largest economies, 51 are now corporations, only 49 are nation-states. Yet few of us understand fully the growing dominance of big business.Widely acclaimed economist Noreena Hertz brilliantly reveals how corporations across the world manipulate and pressure governments by means both legal and illegal; how protest is becoming a more effective political weapon than the ballot-box; and how corporations are taking over from the state responsibility for everything from providing technology for schools to healthcare for the community.The Silent Takeover asks us to recognize the growing contradictions of a world divided between haves and The sales of General Motors and Ford are greater than the gross domestic product of the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, and Wal-Mart now has a turnover higher than the revenues of most of the states of Eastern Europe.
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