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854665
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Mander, Jerry.
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The Capitalism Papers : : Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Counterpoint,, 2013.
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1 online resource (337 pages)
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1619022184
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: 9781619022188
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9781619021587
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Table of Contents; PART ONE: Introduction; I. Economic Succession; The Missing Link; The "C"-Word; This Book; Disclaimer; Structural Arguments; II. Growing Up Global; A New World Order; From Yonkers to Wharton; New Dawn for Business; Robert McNamara, Enforcer; Forty Years Later; III. The Copenhagen Conundrum; Carbon Debt; Cochabamba, Bolivia; The Cancún Conundrum; The Morales Conundrum; PART TWO: The Fatal Flaws of Capitalism; IV. Intrinsic Amorality & Corporate Schizophrenia; Is Greed Good?; Everyday Life in Advertising; Are Corporations People?; Corporations Are Machines.
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"Planetary Boundaries"Resource Shrinkage on a Finite Planet; Financial Speculation in Food Supplies; Privatization of Water; Peak Species & Peak Beauty; Earth Island; Fundamental Questions; VII. Searching for Growth: Desperate Measures; Seven Explorations in Growing Growth; 1. Shifting from Real Growth to Virtual; 2. Creating "New Resources"-Privatizing the Commons; 3. Expanding the Military Economy; 4. Green Capitalism; 5. Search for Green Energy; 6. Creative Destruction; 7. Techno-Utopianism & New Nature; VIII. Propensity Toward War; War as Economic Strategy; The Stealth Economy.
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Doing the NumbersCommercial Arms Trade; Military Keynesianism; F-35 Lightning II Fighter: 325 billion (Lockheed Martin Corporation); Gerald Ford-Class Supercarrier: 120 billion (Northrop Grumman Corporation); Future Combat System: 340 billion (Boeing and SAIC); Littoral Combat Ship: 38 billion(Austal USA and Lockheed Martin); U.S. Military Bases; Asia Pacific; Western Europe; Middle East; Africa; South America; Focus on the Pacific; "Comparative Advantage" of War; IX. Privatization of Democracy; Rule by the Rich; Doing the Numbers; What Is a Billion Dollars?
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The "Problem" of Surplus CapitalInvestments in Government; Politicians for Sale; Koch Brothers: Role Models for Neofeudal Expression; Democracy?; X. Privatization of Consciousness; Who Needs Advertising?; Living Inside Media; Advertising to Children; Global Reach; The Powers of Received Images; Are You Immune?; Is Television Real?; "Truth" in Advertising; Virtual Reality; Global Control; AOL-Time Warner; Disney; The News Corporation; Crisis Point; XI. Capitalism or Happiness; Laissez-Faire; Doing the Numbers; Consequences of Inequity; Economics of Happiness; Sufficiency.
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V. Intrinsic Inequities of Corporate StructureEight Intrinsic Inequities of Corporate Structure; 1. Profits from Business Operation; 2. Profits from Capitalization of the Public Commons; 3. CEO Megasalaries & Bonuses; 4. Stock Payments & Dividends; 5. Invested Earnings: The Multiplier Effect; 6. Wage Repression of Employees; 7. The "Worker Productivity" Scam; 8. Cashing Out: The Sale of Company Assets; The Illusion of Corporate "Efficiency"; VI. Endless Growth on a Finite Planet; Ecosystem Into Economy; Gross Domestic Product (GDP); What's Left Out of GDP?; Virtual Growth.
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In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problems of capitalism. Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system:?What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010." Capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic growth, is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources. Climate change, together with global food, water, and resource shortages, is only the s.
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Capitalism-- Environmental aspects.
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Capitalism-- Social aspects.
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Capitalism-- Environmental aspects.
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Capitalism-- Social aspects.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.342
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HB522
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