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  • Neoliberalism & Global Order
  • By: Noam Chomsky
  • Narrated by: Brian Jones
  • Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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Profit Over People

By: Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: Brian Jones
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Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and hundreds of cities economically devastated? Why would the world's most powerful military spend 10 years fighting an enemy that presents no direct threat to secure resources for corporations?

The culprit in all cases is neoliberal ideology - the belief in the supremacy of "free" markets to drive and govern human affairs. And in the years since the initial publication of Noam Chomsky's Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order, the bitter vines of neoliberalism have only twisted themselves further into the world economy, obliterating the public's voice in public affairs and substituting the bottom line in place of people's basic obligation to care for one another as ends in themselves. In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism through an incisive analysis of free trade agreements of the 1990s, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund - and describes the movements of resistance to the increasing interference by the private sector in global affairs.

In the years since the initial publication of Profit Over People, the stakes have only risen. Now more than ever, Profit Over People is one of the key texts explaining how the crisis facing us operates - and how, through Chomsky's analysis of resistance, we may find an escape from the closing net.

©1999 Noam Chomsky; 1998 Introduction copyright by Robert W. McChesney (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

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What we need to know

Are we really living in a democratic society geared to enable us to actively participate in our own futures? Or are those futures increasingly dictated to, shaped and eroded by certain vested interests? A clear and necessary analysis of the difference between what politicians and big business say, and what they do.

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Yet Another classic from Chomsky. Still extremely important and relevant years after it was written.

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