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Author | : John Bredin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2013-02-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781482000948 |
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Adjunct English Professor John Bredin, tired of being broke in a country that doesn't value teaching, recently ventured outside the ethereal "groves of academe" to try and make a buck as a NYC real estate agent.The encounter between his deep ethical values and a shallow, empty, materialistic corporate culture-- permeated by a sense of meaninglessness and nihilistic despair--produced this cathartic "survival text." A peculiar, eclectic, and unclassifiable mix of memoir, fiction, rant, political & cultural critique, pedagogy, film and theater history, will to power, and business plan, the book also has a concrete functional purpose: to make the author rich quick to give him money for "the cause" of saving our democracy.Though mostly nonfiction, there is a novelistic quality to the text: considering Bakhtin's point about novels having a transformative "vanguard" aspect defined by heteroglossia (the sound of many discourses), dialogism, ideology, and a deep connection to everyday life and an evolving future. Publishers and bookstores may need to create a new genre category for this one. Perhaps existential quest narrative?
Author | : Shoshana Zuboff |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1610395700 |
Download The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.
Author | : Jonathan E. Lewis |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030012905X |
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What happens when the world of venture capital collides with the world of espionage? To find the answer, Jonathan E. Lewis takes us inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to 1965. Itek was manufacturing the world’s most sophisticated satellite reconnaissance cameras, and the information these cameras provided about Soviet missiles and military activity was critical to U.S. security. So was Itek. This intriguing book examines in unprecedented detail the challenges Itek faced not only as a contractor for the most important national security program of the time—the CIA’s Project CORONA spy satellite—but also as a start-up company competing with established industrial giants. In telling the story of Itek Corporation, Lewis fills important gaps in the history of American intelligence, business history, and management studies. In addition, he addresses a variety of important themes such as the compatibility of secrecy and capitalism, the struggle between profits and patriotism, and the workings of power and connections in America. Lewis explores how Itek executives contended with myriad business problems that were compounded by the need to raise capital without revealing the complete truth about the company’s highly secret business. He also presents for the first time information about Laurance Rockefeller’s venture capital operations and his role in financing Itek, based on the financier’s private Itek papers. The book is both a remarkable case study of a company at the heart of the American intelligence-industrial complex during the Cold War and a thought-provoking examination of the impact of the CIA on the capitalist system it was created to defend.
Author | : Anders Aslund |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030024486X |
Download Russia's Crony Capitalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his friends from the KGB, he has enriched his business friends from Saint Petersburg with preferential government deals. Thus, Putin has created a super wealthy and loyal plutocracy that owes its existence to authoritarianism. Much of this wealth has been hidden in offshore havens in the United States and the United Kingdom, where companies with anonymous owners and black money transfers are allowed to thrive. Though beneficial to a select few, this system has left Russia’s economy in untenable stagnation, which Putin has tried to mask through military might.
Author | : Anders Aslund |
Publisher | : Peterson Institute for International Economics |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0881326976 |
Download The Great Rebirth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fall of communism 25 years ago transformed the political and economic landscape in more than two dozen countries across Europe and Asia. In this volume political leaders, scholars, and policymakers assess the lessons learned from the “great rebirth” of capitalism, highlighting the policies that were the most successful in helping countries make the transition to stable and prosperous market economies, as well as those cases of countries reverting to political and economic authoritarianism. The authors of these essays conclude that visionary leadership, and a willingness to take bold and comprehensive steps, achieved the best outcomes, and that privatization of state-owned enterprises and deregulation were essential to success. Recent backsliding, such as the reversal of economic and democratic reforms in Russia and Hungary, has cast a shadow over the legacy of the transition a quarter century ago, however.
Author | : Kevin Werbach |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108645259 |
Download After the Digital Tornado Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Networks powered by algorithms are pervasive. Major contemporary technology trends - Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Platform Power, Blockchain, and the Algorithmic Society - are manifestations of this phenomenon. The internet, which once seemed an unambiguous benefit to society, is now the basis for invasions of privacy, massive concentrations of power, and wide-scale manipulation. The algorithmic networked world poses deep questions about power, freedom, fairness, and human agency. The influential 1997 Federal Communications Commission whitepaper “Digital Tornado” hailed the “endless spiral of connectivity” that would transform society, and today, little remains untouched by digital connectivity. Yet fundamental questions remain unresolved, and even more serious challenges have emerged. This important collection, which offers a reckoning and a foretelling, features leading technology scholars who explain the legal, business, ethical, technical, and public policy challenges of building pervasive networks and algorithms for the benefit of humanity. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Espionage, Russian |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jonathan Haskel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0691183295 |
Download Capitalism without Capital Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success. But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the larger economic changes of the past decade, including the growth in economic inequality and the stagnation of productivity. Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake explore the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment and discuss how an economy rich in intangibles is fundamentally different from one based on tangibles. Capitalism without Capital concludes by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies.
Author | : Roland Philipps |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2018-04-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473545102 |
Download A Spy Named Orphan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West’s greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy... Codenamed ‘Orphan’ by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain’s most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge amounts of top-secret intelligence, an international code-breaking operation was rapidly closing in on him. Moments before he was unmasked, Maclean escaped to Moscow. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, A Spy Named Orphan now tells this story for the first time in full, revealing the character and devastating impact of perhaps the most dangerous Soviet agent of the twentieth century. ‘Superb’ William Boyd ‘Fascinating... An exceptional story of espionage and betrayal, thrillingly told’ Philippe Sands ‘A cracking story... Impressively researched’ Sunday Times ‘Philipps makes the story and the slow uncovering of [Maclean’s] treachery a gripping narrative’ Alan Bennett
Author | : Naomi Klein |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1429919485 |
Download The Shock Doctrine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.