Suiting Themselves
Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda is a 2006 book by Professor Sharon Beder. Beder argues that an international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. She suggests that they created business associations and ‘think tanks’ in the 1970s to drive public policy, push a free trade agenda, and promote the worldwide privatization and deregulation of public services in the 1980s and 1990s, and have worked since the late 1990s to rewrite the rules of the global economy.[1] [2] [3]
Contents
- A corporate class
- National influence
- International Coercion
- Washington Consensus Down Under
- From Public Service to Private Profit
- The Trade Agenda
- Trade in Services
- Coercing Trade Agreements
- Deregulating Investment
- Globalization versus Democracy
- The Triumph of Corporate Rights[4]
References
- ↑ Welford, Richard. Book Review: Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Volume 1, Number 4, 2006, Pages 412 - 413.
- ↑ Rosenbaum, Ruth. Book Reviews: Suiting Themselves How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda, Natural Resources Forum, Volume 31 Issue 2, Pages 170 - 171.
- ↑ Stehlik, Tom. Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive The Global Agenda, Labour & Industry, April, 2007.
- ↑ Beder, Sharon. "Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda", Earthscan, London, 2006.