Suiting themselves :
Beder, Sharon
Suiting themselves : how corporations drive the global agenda / Sharon Beder - London : Earthscan, 2006 - xii, 258p, 24cm.
The book 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 tthink tankst 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.
1844073319
Business and politics
Corporations--Political activity
Industrial policy
322.3 / BED
Suiting themselves : how corporations drive the global agenda / Sharon Beder - London : Earthscan, 2006 - xii, 258p, 24cm.
The book 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 tthink tankst 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.
1844073319
Business and politics
Corporations--Political activity
Industrial policy
322.3 / BED