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Unchecked Corporate Power - Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations Are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
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Unchecked Corporate Power - Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations Are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
Series: Crimes of the Powerful
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Why are crimes of the suite punished more leniently than crimes of
the street? When police killings of citizens go unpunished,
political torture is sanctioned by the state, and the financial
frauds of Wall Street traders remain unprosecuted, nothing succeeds
with such regularity as the active failures of national states to
obstruct the crimes of the powerful. Written from the perspective
of global sustainability and as an unflinching and unforgiving
expose of the full range of the crimes of the powerful, Unchecked
Corporate Power reveals how legalized authorities and political
institutions charged with the duty of protecting citizens from
law-breaking and injurious activities have increasingly become
enablers and colluders with the very enterprises they are obliged
to regulate. Here, Gregg Barak explains why the United States and
other countries are duplicitous in their harsh reactions to street
crimes in comparison to the significantly more harmful and
far-reaching crimes of the powerful, and why the crimes of the
powerful are treated as beyond incrimination. What happens to
nations that surrender ever-growing economic and political power to
the globally super rich and the mammoth multinational corporations
they control? And what can people from around the world do to
resist the criminality and victimization perpetrated by
multinationals, and generated by the prevailing global political
economy? Barak examines an array of multinational crimes-corporate,
environmental, financial, and state-and their state-legal
responses, and outlines policies and strategies for revolutionizing
these contradictory relations of capital reproduction, criminality,
and unsustainability.
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