Joel Bakan

A heavily researched profile of the modern corporation theorizes that businesses are essentially pathological in nature and place profits above accountability, citing the flaws of such practices as deregulation and privatization while outlining a program of democratic control and social responsibility. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

The Corporation

The Pathological Pursuit Of Profit And Power

Corporation

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"Bakan offers passionate argument and copious research in this compelling call for parents to stand up for their children."--Booklist (starred review)

"Corporations have found a new resource to be mined for profit: our children. In this shocking and indelible behind-the-scenes journey, Joel Bakan, acclaimed author and award-winning maker of the renowned film and international bestselling book The Corporation, uncovers the astonishing degree to which companies exploit the special vulnerabilities of children, manipulate parents' fears, and operate with callous disregard for children's health and well-being. The number of children taking dangerous psychotropic drugs has skyrocketed as pharmaceutical companies employ insidious, often illegal tactics to inflate diagnoses of disorders and convince parents their children require medication. A highly sophisticated marketing industry deploys increasingly subtle and powerful tactics to play on children's intense emotions and desires and to lure them into obsessive consumerism. Computer game designers craft techniques to titillate children with sex and violence, while social media developers infiltrate and shape children's social and emotional worlds to compel them to spend more and more monetizable time online. America's schools are being transformed into profit centers while children are subjected to increasingly regimented teaching that thwarts curiosity and creativity, numbing the joy of learning. And children's chronic health problems, from asthma to cancer, autism, and birth defects, steadily escalate as thousands of new industrial chemicals are dumped into their environments.  Nelson Mandela once sagely remarked that "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children." The problem today, as Joel Bakan reveals, is that business interests have made protecting children extremely difficult. Corporations pump billions into rendering parents and governments powerless to shield children from an unrelenting commercial assault, with the result that after a century of progress, during which protective laws and regulations were widely promulgated, children are once again exposed to substantial harms at the hands of economic actors.  Childhood Under Siege leaves no room for doubt that this assault on childhood is a major crisis of our time. A powerful manifesto for urgent change, it empowers us to shield our own children while offering concrete and realistic proposals for legal reforms that would protect all children from these predatory practices. "--Publisher's description

how big business targets children

Childhood under siege

C’è forse qualcosa che non va se milioni di bambini e ragazzi paiono totalmente risucchiati dai videogame e dalla vita sociale online, e passano più tempo a maneggiare i vari congegni elettronici di quanto ne trascorrano a scuola?Non dovremmo forse preoccuparci se molto di ciò che guardano ha a che fare con situazioni di violenza o presenta riferimenti sessuali? Perché l’obesità infantile è sempre più in aumento? E come mai i medici tendono sempre più a trattare i classici comportamenti adolescenziali con la somministrazione di farmaci antidepressivi?Possiamo immaginare una relazione tra i problemi cronici di salute dei bambini e l’immissione nell’ambiente di migliaia di prodotti chimici in grandi quantità?Con questo libro-manifesto Joel Bakan ci apre gli occhi sul fatto che tutti questi fenomeni, e molti altri ancora, non sono casuali, ma derivano da precise scelte industriali e commerciali, cinicamente pianificate e perseguite dalle grandi corporation, che da tempo puntano con forza al ricco mercato dell’infanzia e dell’adolescenza. Il loro obiettivo? Trasformare i nostri ragazzi in consumatori sfrenati.Ma è arrivato il momento di dire basta.Questo libro ci mostra come.

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The author of The Corporation argues that disturbing corporate practices are commercializing childhood and disempowering parents and governments at predatory levels, citing the negative effects of mainstream practices while outlining concrete changes.

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