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Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System (9781565490871): John McMurtry: Books. ...Chapters discuss: -value-free economics -freeom and private property -fallacies of the trickle-down theory -competition and the social good -the homogenization of nations in the world market -freedom of the consumer (if you can pay) -the fatal flaw of the knowledge-based economy -the silent acquiescence or enthusiastic collaboration of academia -ways in which the knowledge-based economy is structured against knowing the turth -the decoupling of capital from civil and environmental life -the shift in the meaning of development -confronting the global market system's death spiral by broadening and deepening the civil commons -- Future Survey, May 1999...Its greatest value lies in the breadth and depth of the author's intellectual perspective.... -- World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, April-June 2000McMurtry claims that ideological, political and technological forces are leading to increasing concentration of economic and political power in a handful of corporations and financial institutions with little regard for ethical problems. -- Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment 97/98
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