Profit over People : Neoliberalism and Global Order
Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and hundreds of cities economically devastated? Why would the world's most powerful military spend...
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A new collection of essays that looks at the theory and practice of democracy. New York Times Book Review [Noam Chomsky is] arguably the most important intellectual alive.
Introduction7INeoliberalism and Global Order19IIConsent without Consent: Regimenting the Public Mind43IIIThe Passion for Free Markets65IVMarket Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality91VThe Zapatista Uprising121VI"The Ultimate Weapon"131VII"Hordes of Vigilantes"159Index169
\ New York Times Book Review[Noam Chomsky is] arguably the most important intellectual alive.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsIn his latest antidote to monolithic media coverage, Chomsky critiques free market philosophy, corporate control over public opinion, the unreported impact of forces and policies such as the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and other assaults on democracy. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
