Greed, Inc. (eBook)

Why Corporations Rule the World and How We Let It Happen

Wade Rowland (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
292 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-204-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Wade Rowland's searing indictment of modern corporations that enjoy the legal status of individuals but are not bound by the same legal and moral responsibilities.

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Why is it that multinational drug companies hide or falsify unfavorable results? Why do automakers knowingly sell us unsafe cars? Why is big business allowed to poison our environmentand us? Why is our food so unhealthy, with obesity growing at such an alarming rate? Why are we working such long hours and enjoying life less? This timely and important book places the blame for much of what ails contemporary society squarely on one institution: the modern publicly traded corporation, which enjoys the legal status of an individual but does not seem bound by the same legal and moral responsibilities, or, in fact, by its nature that is brutally and implacably selfish.While recognizing the positive contributions corporations have made over the past two centuries to science, technology, and medicine, Rowland examines the greed at the core of it all and pinpoints what went wrong and how we can free ourselves from the Greed is good syndrome.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Affordable Housing • American dream • american economy low wages • Asthma • Audits • Bankruptcy • Barbara Ehrenreich • bootstraps • Bourdieu • bus schedule • cheap labour • chest wound • Child Support • conservative approaches • conservatives employer • considerable financial • credit card • daily struggle • dead-end jobs • dimed • educational failure • Emergency Treatment • Environmental Standards • Equity • ethics • failure leads • family budget • farm workers • Fast Food • federal grants • Financial Means • firms • Food Stamps • Health Care • health insurance • Income Tax • jobs pay • Labor Force • loan debt • lower middle • Macro • Managing • medical bill • middle class • minimum wage • native-born americans • Nickel • nickle • Parenting skills • positive role • poverty issue • poverty leads • poverty level • Poverty trap • Public Policy • punctuality • Rationalism • Rationalist • refund • Role Models • run-down apartment • safety net • shipler • Single Mothers • social services • Social Welfare • social workers • student loan • successful programs • Systemic • tax credit • tax preparation • wage earners • wage labor • WalMart
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-204-5 / 1628722045
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-204-8 / 9781628722048