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| Author | : David Bollier |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780415944823 |
This text exposes the audacious attempts of companies to appropriate medical breakthroughs, public airwaves, outer space, state research, and even the DNA of plants and animals. It is an attempt to develop a new ethos of commonwealth in the face of a market ethic that knows no bounds.
| Author | : Ralph Nader |
| Publisher | : Seven Stories Press |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 2011-01-04 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 160980242X |
Ralph Nader is one of America’s most controversial—and uncompromising— public figures. He is a man on a mission who believes that taking on the powers that be involves more than just talking about it—it also means taking action. From car safety in the 1960s to opposition to the World Trade Organization in the 1990s, Nader’s work has increased government responsiveness to citizens, served as a check against the abuse of power by big business, and shaped the political consciousness of a nation. Nader’s sense of mission is infused in all of his work, especially his weekly columns. In Pursuit of Justice, a collection of Nader’s most recent, trenchant articles written in the years immediately following the publication of The Ralph Nader Reader, Nader addresses a broad array of issues, among them: corporate crime and power, government accountability, media control, consumer rights, healthcare, congressional reform, nuclear power and energy, racial discrimination, poverty, food and drug safety, air and water pollution, fair taxation, product liability protection, union democracy, living family wage, unfair lending practices, community radio, industrial hemp, banking, pension law, telecommunications and the importance of character. Nader has even sponsored consumer initiatives to reform university governance, educational testing, daily newspapers, women's health care, legal services, and professional sports—all of which are reflected in these sharp and sometimes humorous essays. As informative as it is pleasurable to read, section after section of In Pursuit of Justice slices through government and corporate propaganda and reveals the corruption, bias and injustice that all too often connect politics with big business, thereby impeding the pursuit of justice. Collecting more than one hundred of his most recent writings, In Pursuit of Justice conveys Nader's inimitable sense of both the global political economy and our nation's democratic promise.
| Author | : Pierre Dardot |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 497 |
| Release | : 2019-01-24 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1474238610 |
Around the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and shared networks of knowledge and communication. These struggles raise the same fundamental demand and rest on the same irreducible principle: the common. In this exhaustive account, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval show how the common has become the defining principle of alternative political movements in the 21st century. In societies deeply shaped by neoliberal rationality, the common is increasingly invoked as the operative concept of practical struggles creating new forms of democratic governance. In a feat of analytic clarity, Dardot and Laval dissect and synthesize a vast repository on the concept of the commons, from the fields of philosophy, political theory, economics, legal theory, history, theology, and sociology. Instead of conceptualizing the common as an essence of man or as inherent in nature, the thread developed by Dardot and Laval traces the active lives of human beings: only a practical activity of commoning can decide what will be shared in common and what rules will govern the common's citizen-subjects. This re-articulation of the common calls for nothing less than the institutional transformation of society by society: it calls for a revolution.
| Author | : United States. Congress |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1426 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : |
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
| Author | : Taha Bayomy Mohamed Ibrahim |
| Publisher | : Taha Bayomy Mohamed Ibrahim |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9779474811 |
Dear reader, you are invited to be with me on the journey of this book ( you and the economy), you are the main purpose of this journey. You and I will move from one idea to another, from an important topic to a more important and deeper topic. And with every idea or topic that is visited, you will discover the effects that you did not expect. Are you ready to discover these effects? Come and travel with me: 1- The city of hidden ghost viruses. This city has a virus that can destroy the purchasing power of your income and can make you unable to find your daily sustenance. 2- The cities of the economic system (whether it is a microeconomics city, a macroeconomics city, or a global economy city) to identify the negative effects that make you abandon your homeland or swallow the misery of living poor if these cities are managed unknowingly. 3- The city of hope, where we learn about the roads that lead us to a better world than we are living in. 4- We will visit your city, reader, to find out how much you were affected by the economic decisions that fell on you. Let's find out if you are one of the creators of the event, one of the participants of the event, or one of the viewers of the event. Are you affected by the event without affecting it? Who are you, dear reader?
| Author | : Susan Marks |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2019-12-05 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0191663557 |
This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end of the eighteenth century, a heated controversy over the rights of man coincided with the final enclosure of common lands and the momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking back still further to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing about dispossession, resistance and rights, the book reveals a forgotten tradition of thought about central issues in human rights, with profound implications for their prospects in the world today.
| Author | : James Thomas Molesworth |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 960 |
| Release | : 1857 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sebastian Matzner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2018-11-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0192543792 |
This volume investigates an important and surprisingly widespread phenomenon in Latin literature, which has to date received little sustained discussion: the deliberate assumption of a weaker voice by speakers who in fact hold sufficient status not to be forced into this position. Though often associated with the markers of imperial hegemony and elite speech, Latin literature evinces a remarkably broad range of strategies designed to enable the adoption of a markedly disempowered voice- from topoi such as recusatio (professing a lack of ability to write in status-conforming, superior genres) and rhetorical devices such as prosopopoeia (artfully and strategically adopting a persona to garner favour, even when this means temporarily forfeiting one's higher status and discursive privileges), to the long-silenced female heroines of Ovid's Heroides and satire's irreverent take on the great and the good by framing its narratives as being articulated 'from below'. Even large-scale cultural self-positionings fall within this scope, be they expressions of Roman cultural inferiority vis-à-vis classical Greece or the tensions that arise between humble (yet spiritually superior) Christian writers and their grand, canonical, and classical (yet pagan) predecessors. The intersecting case studies offered in Complex Inferiorities examine this phenomenon in a wide range of genres, periods, and authors. By demonstrating that re-negotiating alleged weakness constitutes a central activity in Latin literature, this volume reveals the extent of the literary and cultural-political possibilities opened up by assuming and speaking in voices of weakness and inferiority. Authored by experts in their fields, the individual chapters explore the crucial role of the 'weaker voice' in establishing, perpetuating, and challenging hierarchies and values in a wide range of contexts- from poetics and choices of genre, to social status and intra- and intercultural relations- thereby offering invaluable insights not only for the study of classics, but for literary and cultural studies across the humanities.
