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The Predatory Society
Author | : Paul Blumberg |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1989-03-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780198020806 |
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Who knows more about a business's shady practices than the people who work there? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg examines a wide variety of evidence, including over 600 accounts written by workers who disclose in elaborate detail the deceptions their employers practiced on the public. Employed in a wide variety of business enterprises--supermarkets, restaurants, fish markets, department stores, gas stations, drug stores, pet stores, and many more--these workers pull back the curtain and reveal the hidden recesses of the American marketplace. Blumberg documents these deceptions in numerous vivid stories, providing readers with a trenchant handbook on survival in America. He tells of stores that routinely mark prices up before a sale; gas stations that sell regular gas as high test; auto mechanics who spray-paint customers' old car parts and then charge them for new parts (in one gas stations, the workers claimed that the mechanic's best tool was his paint can); and pharmacists who sell generic drugs and charge name-brand prices. But equally important, he provides an insightful analysis of why deception pervades the American marketplace. Though at times amusing, The Predatory Society is also frequently disturbing for what it says about private capitalism: how dishonesty is all but built into the American marketplace, and how this dishonesty has potentially disastrous effects on trust and community in our society.
The Predatory Society
Author | : Paul Blumberg |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Capitalism |
ISBN | : 9780195066548 |
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How pervasive is deception in the American marketplace? In this pioneering study, Paul Blumberg not only reveals the extent to which fraud is practiced on the American consumer, but offers a penetrating analysis of its causes and social consequences. Among the evidence Blumberg examines are 600 accounts by workers in such businesses as restaurants, gas stations, and drug stores of the fraudulent practices of their employers. Here are eye-opening accounts of gas station owners selling regular gas as high test, auto mechanics who spray-paint old parts and sell them as new, pharmacists who sell generic drugs at brand-name prices, and more. Blumberg suggests that dishonesty is all but built into the American marketplace, and that its social effects include the loss of trust and community.
The Predator State
Author | : James Galbraith |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2008-08-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781416566830 |
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A progressive economist challenges popular conservative-minded economic practices, in a scathing critique of Reagan-Bush policies that contends that the political right is misrepresenting the consequences of free-market and free-trade ideals. 50,000 first printing.
Haiti s Predatory Republic
Author | : Robert Fatton |
Publsiher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1588260852 |
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With the collapse of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986 came optimistic hopes for a transition toward a sound democracy, accompanied by economic development and social peace--a vision which has failed to materialize in the past 15 years. A native of Haiti, Fatton (government, U. of Virginia) analyzes Haitian politics from 1986 to 2001, revealing the complications and conflicts which have slowed the country's progress toward an effective democracy. The author also explores alternatives which could lead the country toward success. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Dynamic Society
Author | : Graeme Snooks |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781134775712 |
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This book discusses the nature and process of change in human society over the past two million years. The author draws on economic, historical and biological concepts to examine the driving forces of change and looks to likely developments in the future. This analysis produces some very thought-provoking and controversial conclusions.
Thorstein Veblen
Author | : John Cunningham Wood |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0415074878 |
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138 articles are arranged thematically to give easy access to the intellectual processes of this influencial economist. Volume 1 deals with his life and perspectives, volume 2 with "political economy" and volume 3 on "Specialized topics
Africa s Big Men
Author | : Kenneth Kalu,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 1138559334 |
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This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ¿big men¿ across Africa's fifty-four states. The contributors interrogate the evolution of Africa¿s big men; the role of the big men in Africa¿s political and economic development; and the relationship between the state, the big men and the citizens. Throughout the chapters the contributors engage with a number of questions from¿different disciplinary and methodological orientations. How did these states evolve to exhibit various deformities in their composition, functioning and in their relations with the societies that they govern? What roles did Atlantic and other slavery and European colonialism play in creating states that are unable to display the right and good relationships with citizens in civil society? Why did these forms of predatory state-society relations continue to thrive in Africa after the end of Atlantic slave trade and subsequent colonialism? Why did the emerging African leaders at independence fail to effectively dismantle the structures of exploitation and expropriation that were the defining features of slavery and colonialism? Who are Africa¿s ¿big men¿, and what are their trajectories? This book is essential reading for all students and scholars of African politics, public policy and administration, political economy, and democratisation.
The Destiny of Modern Societies
Author | : Milan Zafirovski |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2009-07-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789047429739 |
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Applying the idea of the destiny of societies or nations, the book argues, demonstrates, and illustrates the Calvinist societal "predestination", through the Puritan determination, of American society.