Profit Over People

• Author : Noam Chomsky
• Publisher : Seven Stories Press
• Release : 06 September 2011

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 ten years fighting an enemy

• Author : Everest Media,
• Publisher : Everest Media LLC
• Release : 13 May 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The term neoliberalism is used to describe a system of principles that is both new and based on classical liberal ideas. The doctrinal system is also known as the Washington consensus, which suggests something about global order. #2 The neoliberal Washington consensus is an array of market-oriented principles implemented by the United States and international financial institutions that largely control it. The basic rules are: liberalize trade

• Author : Noam Chomsky
• Publisher : Seven Stories Press
• Release : 04 January 2011

In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural extension . . . of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society." In his stirring conclusion Chomsky argues, "We have today the technical and material resources to meet man’s animal needs.

• Author : Robert A. Rhoads,Carlos Alberto Torres
• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• Release : 31 March 2023

This is an examination of the complex relationships among universities, states, and markets in light of the growing influence of globalization.

• Author : Myles W. Wallace
• Publisher : Trafford Publishing
• Release : 01 February 2014

This book is about poetry. Poetry regarding how it affected and continues to affect my life through working, church, family, and living.

• Author : Michael Parenti
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 17 November 2015

From market crisis to market boom, from welfare to wealth care, from homelessness to helplessness, and an all-out assault on the global environment-these are just some of the indecencies of contemporary economic life that Profit Pathology takes on. Here, Michael Parenti investigates how class power is a central force in our political life and, yet, is subjected to little critical discernment. He notes how big-moneyed interests shift the rules of the game in their favor while unveiling the long march

• Author : Myles W. Wallace
• Publisher : Trafford Publishing
• Release : 01 June 2013

These God-inspired poems were written while Myles traveled locally, nationally, and internationally as a field engineer. Myles learned that education is invaluable for advancing in society. At the age of eight, Myles's third-grade teacher inspired him to read books. By the time he was nine, he had read three hundred books, many of them were poetry books. Through poetry, he is able to express his deep feelings about humankind. Myles enjoys meeting and conversing with people of all ages, genders,

• Author : Leonard Marsden
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 06 February 2022

Have you ever worked for an organization and felt like something was off or dysfunctional? Or an organization that you knew for sure was toxic and dysfunctional? From my twenty-two years in the United States Army, three years as an imbedded contractor, and over eighteen years in manufacturing and from the things that I learned while working on my MBA at the Jack Welch Management School, I have worked the entire spectrum of organizations, from totally dysfunctional to fully functional,

• Author : Robert White
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release : 01 April 2020

The Moral Case for Profit Maximization argues that profit maximization is moral when businessmen seek to maximize profit by creating goods or services that are of objective value. Traditionally, profit maximization has been defended on economic grounds. Profit, economists argue, incentivizes businessmen to produce goods and services. In this view, businessmen do not need to be virtuous as long as they deliver the goods. It challenges the traditional defense of profit maximization, arguing that profit maximization is morally ambitious because

• Author : Jon-Arild Johannessen
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 18 April 2019

In this book, the author argues that a new form of capitalism is emerging at the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He asserts that we are in the midst of a transition from democratic capitalism to feudal capitalism and highlights how robotization and innovation is leading to a social crisis for the middle classes as economic inequality is on the rise. Johannessen outlines the three elements – Balkanization, the Great Illusion, and the plutocracy – which are referred to here as

• Author : Celine-Marie Pascale
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 28 July 2021

For the majority of Americans, hard times have long been a way of life. Some work multiple low-wage jobs, others face the squeeze of stagnant wages and rising costs of living. Sociologist Celine-Marie Pascale talked with people across Appalachia, at the Standing Rock and Wind River reservations, and in the bustling city of Oakland, California. Their voices offer a wide range of experiences that complicate dominant national narratives about economic struggles. Yet Living on the Edge is about more than

• Author : Nicholas Smaligo
• Publisher : Open Court
• Release : 21 July 2014

The Occupy Movement Explained is a readable, compact account and analysis of the Occupy protests, by a scholar who participated in several Occupy events. The book is thoroughly researched, painstakingly accurate, and fully documented. It debunks a number of myths and misunderstandings that have become rife. Nicholas Smaligo shows how the movement arose out of radical currents that have been active below the media's radar since the 1970s. Occupiers are not all the same, and the author reviews some of

• Author : Henry A. Giroux
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 13 May 2013

Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural politics of the Disney empire.

• Author : Mark Silk,Christopher White
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 13 December 2021

This collection of essays by leading scholars explores the present, dynamic state of metaphysical religion in America. It includes chapters that: put survey data on this growing group in context; clarify definitional issues in the study of spirituality in general and metaphysical spirituality in particular; and assess the networks, conferences, rituals, festivals, retreat centers and periodicals recently developed by metaphysicals. The contributors discuss characteristic practices of mental healing and meditation, and show the reach of metaphysical ideas into public spaces

• Author : M.G. Montpelier
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 02 February 2022

AMERICAN APOCALYPSE is a reflective commentary on the fifty-year Republican Assault on America from the 1971 Powell Republican political “dark money” offensive to save “Capitalism from Democracy” to the 2021 Republican violent Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021, to overturn the United States Constitution and the electoral will of the people. Yesterday’s America of prosperity for the many is today an America of prosperity for the few.” This will be America’s forever world of tomorrow should “We the People” allow a Republican “