Argues that expanding US corporate power is accompanied by a corresponding loss of people power, and mostly because of a legal blunder in 1886.
Provocative critique of the US presidency
The author identifies the late professor of philosophy at the University Chicago as the shadowy force behind the conservative revolution.
Crisply written ammunition for the President's most committed opponents
Deeply critical analysis of the Objectivist movement, Rand's leadership role, and the politics of her tightly knit inner circle. Alan Greenspan adored Ayn Rand and is the major culprit in the twenty five year decline of the dollar and the rise of managed and unmanaged inflation through a policy that avers domestic production in favor of contiuous growth in domestic consumption through cheap credit.
A political scientist argues that intolerant tribalism and international consumerism is a dangerous brew.
A professor emeritus of political science at Boston University lets blacks, native Americans, women and labourers tell their own story.
An attack on extreme capitalism and market worshippers.
A leading UK columnist and environmental thinker - and scourge of the corporatists
"Tell people something they know already and they will thank you. Tell them something new and they will hate you for it."
Compelling work by the ground-breaking libertarian socialist and feminist.
Hypertensive conservatives might want to take some medication before reading this one.
Seminal work by this radical social critic.
An eye-opening challenge to crime and punishment hardliners.
The prominent French sociologist attacks dumbing down and the corporatised information industry
Nobel prize winner and former Chief Economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz had a unique insider's view into globalisation. Now he speaks out against it, while arguing that it can still be a force for good - with radical changes to the balance of power.
Selections from the Nobel Peace Prize winner's speeches, sermons and writings
Critics will call this a one-sided book; but it is an invaluable corrective to the establishment portrait of America as the world's greatest force for peace.
Caustic and funny attack on corporate America and political hypocrisy by the Tom Paine of our age
His chilling and prophetic masterpiece envisages a world where political leaders have manipulated the multitudes into uncritical acceptance of their power and party slogans War is PeaceIgnorance is StrengthFreedom is Slavery
A devastating critique of globalisation, and arguments for change
Eye-opening investigation into the inner workings of unregulated or marginally regulated business and industry.
This woefully neglected icon of free thought was not only a central figure in the American and French revolutions, but also came impressively close to kick-starting one in England.
A free trader in the days when free trade meant minimising the risk of war and undermining the exploitation of the nation state, Paine also advocated social safety nets in anticipation of the welfare state.
His danger to churches and governments was his ability to write in plain accessible language - and to ridicule pomp and power.
Literally the first serious formulation of human rights as a political concept
An often hilarious and thoroughly readable rebuff of church dogma and Old Testament morality
Love him or loathe him, Chomsky is one of today's great intellectuals; a champion of the libertarian left who writes in an accessible way and bombards the reader with stimulating new facts and arguments
US corporate watchdog who influenced the manufacture of safer cars and whose candidacy in the election of 2000 may have cost the Democrats the presidency. For Nader, it was only a choice between "Tweedledum and Tweedledumber" anyway.
Nader attacks what, for some right-wingers, is the acceptable aspect of welfare.
A diverse and provocative read
This investigative work by a former student of Milton Friedman unearths uncomfortable information for those who hold that what's good for the corporations is inevitably good for us all.
Co-operation rather than competition is the key to survival according to this naturalist's fascinating take on Darwinism.
A former Russian prince who abandoned privilege to side with the bolsheviks, he became equally critical of 'The new Tsars' and championed the cause of anarchism.
Student radical turned journalist and film maker
His Keynesian economic approach looks more radical in these days of neo-liberal orthodoxy
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