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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Diving deep into the world of corporate marketing, this incisive and eye-opening work shows how, in the hands of the corporation, business has become manipulative, divisive and disastrously at odds with the needs of the natural world. It calls on us to rethink and rebel. The corporate marketing blitz is driven by a simple economic truth: profits depend on demand always exceeding supply. A multi-billion-dollar global industry has therefore been created...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Watchdog draws readers into the story of how Harry Truman, a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a team that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House. Drawing on the records of the Truman Committee as well as oral histories, letters, newspaper archives and interviews, Steve Drummond brings the committee's work to life. The Watchdog shows...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Provides an original account of international business ethics grounded in cosmopolitan human rights theory Transnational companies (TNCs) operate in a variety of political jurisdictions and legal frameworks. As international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) continue to increase, TNCs based in industrialized 'home' nations are gaining enormous economic and political influence in developing 'host' nations. Corporations operating internationally,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Broadcasting from Oakland, California, "the center of the known universe," Alicia Garza's podcast Lady Don't Take No! begins with the pronouncement "This show is pro-Black, pro-Queer, proudly Feminist, and pro-Do-Whatcha-Like. Every week, you are going to get the best of what goes on in my head, what we're lovin' on, what we're hatin' on, what we might be and what we aint gon do." Garza, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement along with...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Many of the central concerns of the twenty-first century-racial inequity, white supremacy movements, greater inclusiveness of diverse peoples-are rooted in facing and overcoming prejudices, both common and hidden. Another great challenge-the role of wealth and innovation in solving the climate crisis-is also riddled with disabling prejudices about how corporations work, and about the rights and needs of consumers and world citizens. In his twenty-first...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century - widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world - many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to necessary projects; massive inequality is the unavoidable...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Migrate your existing, on-premises applications into the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. This book covers the best practices to plan, implement, and operationalize the migration of a database application from your organization's data center to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. Data modernization and migration is a technologically complex endeavor that can also be taxing from a leadership and operational standpoint. This book covers not only the technology,...
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