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Insatiable: The Rise and Rise of the Greedocracy
Professor Stuart Sim
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Description for Insatiable: The Rise and Rise of the Greedocracy
Hardback. Insatiable exposes the damaging effects of greed in both public and private life, showing how the actions of a socially-irresponsible 'greedocracy' are systematically undermining our democratic institutions. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Insatiable exposes the damaging effects of greed in both public and private life, showing how the actions of a socially irresponsible 'greedocracy' are systematically undermining our democratic institutions. Ranging across politics, economic theory, the financial world, healthcare, the food industry, sport, religion and the creative arts, it demonstrates how deeply embedded the greed imperative is in human psychology, and suggests various strategies for dealing with it in our daily experience. All of us are capable of being greedy in small, usually insignificant ways, but some of our fellow citizens carry this trait to extremes, including such antisocial behaviour as tax evasion. When the public purse is defrauded, everyone suffers.Greed is all around us, a critical factor of twenty-first-century life: the food industry enthusiastically promotes greed in our eating habits, ignoring the well-attested harm this does to our health prospects; the private medical sector, the norm in most countries, treats its clients primarily as sources of profit; the corporate sector cynically exploits the climate of austerity as an excuse to erode workers' rights and drive down wages; the wealth gap between the greedocracy and the rest of the population grows exponentially year on year. Insatiable is a wake-up call to recognize the negative influence that greed is having on human relations, and to resist the ever-present temptation to give in to its lure. Greed is a social evil that we must combat wherever we can.
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780237343
SKU
V9781780237343
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About Professor Stuart Sim
Stuart Sim is a former Professor of Critical Theory, Northumbria University, Newcastle. Recent publications include Fifty Key Postmodern Thinkers (2013), The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory (2016) and A Philosophy of Pessimism (Reaktion, 2015).
Reviews for Insatiable: The Rise and Rise of the Greedocracy
'[a] lively survey ... Hard-hitting analysis.' - Jonathan Steele, The Guardian