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| Original Title: | Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain |
| ISBN: | 0330369431 (ISBN13: 9780330369435) |
| Edition Language: | English |
George Monbiot
Paperback | Pages: 360 pages Rating: 3.96 | 407 Users | 15 Reviews
Present Out Of Books Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain
| Title | : | Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain |
| Author | : | George Monbiot |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 360 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 2001 by Pan Books (UK) (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Politics. Nonfiction. Economics. History |
Description To Books Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain
An account of how big business has used its lobbying power and top-level contacts to shape UK policy and the economy in its favour.If you ever wanted to know why the British government so rarely steers the country in the direction wished for by the general populace, this book contains a number of case studies that detail the corporate takeover that began under the Tories around the time of Thatcher and accelerated under Blair.
I cannot think of a book that has made me more angry or more worried about our future than this one.
This book only takes us up to around the year 2000 or so. I'd very much like to read a second volume bringing events up to the present day.
Rating Out Of Books Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain
Ratings: 3.96 From 407 Users | 15 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain
Reading an 18 year old current affairs book at first seemed a preposterous exercise. However the song appears to remain the same. The captive state described appears now to have become all pervasive and we as a nation have managed to sleep walked into corporate entrapment on almost every level of our lives. Corporate State maanges to explain exactly how big business has consumed our lives, our government and our very soul. A book to make your blood boil - the irony of course being that theMarvellous ... i read it in 2001 but it is worrying how much has come true - and that I understand it all so much better now.Everyone should read - it is eminently readable and gives us so much knowledge we can use.
What we have always sort of known. They own us!
essential reading for anyone who wants to know why life in the UK is as it is.
I loved this book and I review it here: https://onlyanatheist.wordpress.com/2...
Although published in 2000, George Monbiot's meticulous research gives him an almost prophetic visionary grasp of the world of international politics and the encroachment of big business into every sphere of the establishment, so it's relevant still, and ever more urgent in 2017. There are moments of poetry through his wonderful use of language, as there are many moments of sheer outrage at all the hidden machinations he exposes so ruthlessly. The final paragraphs remind readers that it is down
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