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Sharon Beder

    Sharon Beder critically examines how power relationships are maintained and challenged, particularly by corporations and professions. Her work delves into environmental politics, the rhetoric of sustainable development, and the philosophies underpinning environmental economics. More recently, she has broadened her focus to critique neoliberalism in its various forms, including privatization, deregulation, and the marketization of social issues. Beder's writing offers insight into the dynamics of power and its impact on society and the environment.

    Global Spin
    • Global Spin

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces to try to change the way the public and politicians think about the environment. Large corporations are using their influence to reshape public opinion, to weaken gains made by environmentalists, and to turn politicians against increased environmental regulation. Global Spin shows how, in a relentless assault on democracy and its institutions, the massive, covert power of large corporations has enabled corporate agendas to dominate the international debate about the state of the environment and the most effective means of solving environmental problems

      Global Spin