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The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company’s practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today. This expanded edition explores how the four forces of scale, technology, finance and regulation drove its spectacular rise and fall.

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Joel Bakan's book is a brilliantly argued account of the corporation's pathological pursuit of profit and power. An eminent law professor and legal theorist, Bakan contends that the corporation is created by law to function much like a psychopathic personality whose destructive behavior, if left unchecked, leads to scandal and ruin. Despite the structural failings found in the corporation, Bakan believes change is possible and outlines a far-reaching program of concrete, pragmatic, and realistic reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.

Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling that the rights of things—money and corporations—matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy. In this timely and thoroughly updated second edition, Jeff Clements describes the strange history of this bizarre ruling, its ongoing destructive effects, and the growing movement to reverse it.

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The twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation, from entrepreneurial to managerial capitalism, brought forth what became a dominant narrative: that administrative coordination by trained professional managers is essential to the efficient running of organizations both public and private. And yet if managerialism was the apotheosis of administrative efficiency, why did both its practice and the accompanying narrative lie in ruins by the end of the century? 

Prediction markets are where the smartest money goes to be right. The Prediction Show breaks down what the markets are actually pricing — elections, the Fed, sports, crypto, culture, and the occasional black swan — and turns the odds into a story you can use.Each episode reads the tape on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, separates the signal from the noise, and asks the only question that matters: what does the crowd know that the headlines don't?No punditry, no hot takes for the sake of it — just where the real money is moving and why.Broadcasting from Las Vegas, the capital of ...

A deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society's problems, while CEO compensation soars, income inequality is at all-time highs, and democracy sits in a precarious situation. “A very...

Fox News is a 24-hour American cable news channel, launched in 1996 and owned by Fox Corporation. It delivers breaking news, political coverage, business updates, and cultural commentary across television, radio, digital platforms, and streaming services. Known for its conservative-leaning perspective, Fox News has consistently ranked as the most-watched cable news network in the United States, shaping public discourse with a mix of straight reporting and opinion-driven programming."

When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It documents the devastating human and environmental consequences of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct values and institutions everywhere on the planet to serve their own narrow ends.

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In his stunning memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins detailed his former role as an "economic hit man" in the international corporate skulduggery of a de facto American Empire. Now Perkins zeroes in on hot spots around the world, drawing on interviews to examine the current...

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Endgame. The Hundred Days offensive brought an end to the stalemate in the trenches and saw the collapse of the Central Powers. Should the allies have occupied Germany at the end of the War, and if they had, could they have prevented WW2?Other Voices, Other Battles. Could the Entente powers have survived at the front without the assistance of troops and workers from colonised nations?

An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People's Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.

Challenging conventional wisdom about where power is held on a global scale, Stern complicates the supposedly firm distinction between private enterprise and the state, offering a new history of the British Empire, as well as a new history of the corporation.

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John Gray, who changed the way people view gender differences with his #1 international bestseller Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, now brings his insights to the working world. In Mars and Venus in the Workplace, Gray analyzes the differences in the ways men and women misunderstand and...

19 Observations on the Mining and Refining of Critical Materials is a CVMR thought-leadership series examining the industrial realities behind critical minerals, refining capacity, mineral processing, supply-chain control, ESG, strategic materials, and the economics of rebuilding domestic refining capability. Each episode is adapted from CVMR’s written series and is available in audio and article form. Produced By: Kiana Kianara Executive Vice President, Marketing & PR

"Corporations Grow Nervous about Participating in Republican Convention" is from the March 30, 2016, US section of The New York Times. It was written by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.