The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life
In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy.Crouch shows that executives in profit-maximizing corporations have incentives to ignore or distort knowledge, especially firms in the information business of the mass media themselves, as financial knowledge increasingly trumps the other kinds of knowledge that business needs. Firms…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-6985-4
- EAN: 9780745669854
- Produktnummer: 18161110
- Verlag: Polity Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.2 cm 355 g
- Gewicht: 355
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COLIN CROUCH is Professor Emeritus of the University of Warwick, and the External Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research at Cologne. His many books include Post-democracy, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism, and Making Capitalism Fit for Society.
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