Power, Inc.: public and private rulers and how to make them accountable
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Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Mintz, Morton (VerfasserIn), Cohen, Jerry S. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Bantam Books 1977
Schlagworte:
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
I. The obsolete constitution: The framers' grand design; why it failed -- Separation and division; the presidency -- Separation and division; Congress -- Separation and division; the courts/the states -- Private governments -- The fourth branch; bureaucracies -- The end of government by and for the people -- II. Government secrecy: The executive -- Congress/advisory committees/lobbying -- The Supreme Court -- Secrecy and the press/agencies/states/cities -- The Federal Reserve system -- III. Corporate secrecy: Who owns the corporations? -- Ignorance is pain -- Buying elections -- More election buyers -- Corporate bribery -- IV. Conflict of interest in government: The executive/Congress/courts/agencies -- V. Conflict of interest in the private sector: Physician, heel thyself -- Unaccountable accountants -- Blue Cross and other conduits of private power -- Banks/unions/hospitals -- The press -- Eroding competition -- VI. Unaccountable language: Words, words, words -- Conservatives, liberals, criminals -- VII. Tricks of the unaccountability trade: Wedge-driving -- The donkey's tail -- Potpourri -- Setbacks and hopes -- VIII. The press; unaudited power: Setting the agenda -- Overseeing the overseer of the overseer -- Flacking -- IX. Consequences of unaccountability: The CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS -- World, Inc -- The workplace -- Taxes -- Hanging judges -- Cattle feed and human fodder -- Human guinea pigs -- Doctors and dentists -- X. Unaccountable technology; the end of the world?: Nuclear power; the "Faustian bargain" -- Supertankers -- The ozone layer -- Burdens of proof -- Nuclear pacemakers/genetic engineering -- XI. What to do: Constitution Avenue
Beschreibung:xxx, 831 S. 18 cm
ISBN:0553103881

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