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Market Killing - What the Free Market does and what social scientists can do about it (Hardcover)
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Market Killing - What the Free Market does and what social scientists can do about it (Hardcover)
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This book shows how the release of the free market in the last part
of the twentieth century produced a rise in inequality and
violence, the development of a huge criminal economy and the
degradation of social and cultural life. It questions the silence
of academics in the face of these changes and asks how much they
have been incorporated into the priorities of commerce and
governments. Many academics in the social sciences, media and
cultural studies have avoided critical issues and become occupied
in obscure theoretical debates such as post-modernism. The effect
was to draw inellectuals and students away from the engaged and
empirical work needed to identify key social problems and
possibilities for change. The authors of this book point to the
need for independent research which can criticise political
policies and reveal their effects. They show, for example, why
contemporary policies on drugs and education are creating more
problems than they solve. The book features contributions from a
wide range of academic disciplines including mass communications,
sociology, politics, geography, philosophy and economics, and
points to new directions for radical science. It also examines the
possibilities for a free and democratic media and calls for the
development of critical and open debate.
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