Crisis and Predation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis and Predation write by The Research Unit for Political Economy. This book was released on 2020-11-15. Crisis and Predation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disaster With the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India’s billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government’s spending to cushion the lockdown’s economic impact ranked among the world’s lowest in GDP terms, resulting in unprecedented unemployment and hardship. Crisis and Predation shows how this tight-fistedness stems from the fact that global financial interests oppose any sizable expansion of public spending by India, and that Indian rulers readily adhere to their guidance. The authors reveal that global investors and a handful of top Indian corporate groups actually benefit from the resulting demand depression: armed with funds, they are picking up valuable assets at distress prices. Meanwhile, under the banner of reviving private investment, India’s rulers have planned giant privatizations, and drastically revised laws concerning industrial labor, the peasantry, and the environment—in favor of large capital. And yet, this book contends, India could defy the pressures of global finance in order to address the basic needs of its people. But this would require shedding reliance on foreign capital flows, and taking a course of democratic national development. This, then, is a pursuit, not for India’s ruling classes, but a course of struggle for India's people.
Crisis and Predation
Crisis and Predation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis and Predation write by . This book was released on 2020. Crisis and Predation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Predator State
The Predator State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Predator State write by James Galbraith. This book was released on 2008-08-05. The Predator State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A progressive economist challenges popular conservative-minded economic practices, in a scathing critique of Reagan-Bush policies that contends that the political right is misrepresenting the consequences of free-market and free-trade ideals. 50,000 first printing.
The Watchdog That Didn't Bark
The Watchdog That Didn't Bark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Watchdog That Didn't Bark write by Dean Starkman. This book was released on 2014-01-07. The Watchdog That Didn't Bark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details “how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years” (Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation). In this sweeping, incisive post-mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He examines the deep cultural and structural shifts—some unavoidable, some self-inflicted—that eroded journalism’s appetite for its role as watchdog. The result was a deafening silence about systemic corruption in the financial industry. Tragically, this silence grew only more profound as the mortgage madness reached its terrible apogee from 2004 through 2006. Starkman frames his analysis in a broad argument about journalism itself, dividing the profession into two competing approaches—access reporting and accountability reporting—which rely on entirely different sources and produce radically different representations of reality. As Starkman explains, access journalism came to dominate business reporting in the 1990s, a process he calls “CNBCization,” and rather than examining risky, even corrupt, corporate behavior, mainstream reporters focused on profiling executives and informing investors. Starkman concludes with a critique of the digital-news ideology and corporate influence, which threaten to further undermine investigative reporting, and he shows how financial coverage, and journalism as a whole, can reclaim its bite. “Can stand as a potentially enduring case study of what went wrong and why.”—Alec Klein, national bestselling author of Aftermath “With detailed statistics, Starkman provides keen analysis of how the media failed in its mission at a crucial time for the U.S. economy.”—Booklist
The Political Economy of Predation
The Political Economy of Predation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Economy of Predation write by Mehrdad Vahabi. This book was released on 2015-12-11. The Political Economy of Predation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses conflict theory through one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation.
