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Blackout

How the Electric Industry Exploits America

By Gordon L. Weil


Ever since Thomas Edison created the first electrical utility, the energy industry has cheated American customers with impunity. Blackout delves into the history of this increasingly monopolized--and corrupt--industry.

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Appetite for Profit

How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back

By Michele Simon


This book exposes the hypocrisy of major food companies like Kraft, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds, that are staging massive PR campaigns to look like they are "part of the solution" while they simultaneously lobby against sound nutrition policies.

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A Devil's Dictionary of Business

Monkey Business; High Finance and Low; Money, the Making, Losing, and Printing Thereof; Commerce; Trade; Clever Tricks; Tours de Force; Globalism and Globaloney; Industry; Invention; the Stock Market; Marvelous Explanations and Clarifications.

By Nicholas von Hoffman


Arranged alphabetically, from "Abacus" to "Zukor, Adolph," The Devil's Dictionary of Business is a sardonic and dizzying tour of the business world. It elucidates business from top to bottom, from the ancient world to the present.

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Taking Back the Corporation

A Mad as Hell Guide

By Ralph Estes and Ralph Nader


Ralph Estes reveals what's wrong with big corporations, the harm they do to us all, and how this perversion of corporate purpose came to be. He then lays out a concrete program to take back the corporation and restore it to its original social and public purpose.

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Selling Sickness

How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients

By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels


As Wall Street knows, there's a lot of money to be made telling healthy people they're sick. Selling Sickness shows how the widening of the boundaries that define illness and the medicalization of everyday life are creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits for the world's largest drug companies.

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Meltdown

How Greed and Corruption Shattered our Financial System and How We Can Recover

By Katrina vanden Heuvel


America's economy is in meltdown. Faced with a complex and spiraling crisis, the government has poured billions of taxpayer dollars into a bailout with no end in sight. At every step of the way, The Nation has tackled the most urgent challenges facing our leaders. Stretching back 20 years, Meltdown draws together the best of the magazine's coverage of the financial crisis.
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The Gods that Failed

How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future

By Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson


Over the past three decades, governments have ceded economic control to a new elite of free-market operatives in national and international institutions such as the IMF, World Bank and WTO. They praised economic stability but have delivered chaos. Their speculation has left the global economy more vulnerable to a financial collapse than any time since 1929. Two leading financial economists dissect this financial elite, tracing their origins to a secretive gathering of free-market economists in 1947, and propose a series of far-reaching reforms that can save us from a new depression.
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Halliburton's Army

How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

By Pratap Chatterjee


From Halliburton's vital mission as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without it there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up gang-rape among its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton's Army is a devastating exposé of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism. In shocking detail it shows how Halliburton and its former subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) really do business in Iraq, and around the world.

Watch Pratap Chatterjee discuss Halliburton's Army on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.



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