How Corrupt is Britain? - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0745335292 ISBN 13: 9780745335292

Casa editrice: Pluto Pr, 2015

Riassunto

Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of parliament cooking the books. Major defense contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it’s high time we ask: Just exactly how corrupt is Britain?
David Whyte brings together a wide range of leading commentators and campaigners, offering a series of troubling answers. Unflinchingly facing the corruption in British public life, they show that it is no longer tenable to assume that corruption is something that happens elsewhere; corrupt practices are revealed across a wide range of venerated institutions, from local government to big business. These powerful, punchy essays aim to shine a light on the corruption fundamentally embedded in UK politics, police, and finance.

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Recensione:

A game-changing book. It should be read by everyone. (George Monbiot, the Guardian)

'The books is strongest where it concentrates on new forms of corruption associated with the reorganization of the state in the neo-liberal era, detailing the new ways in which the state has been infested by private interests.' (Times Literary Supplement)

'How Corrupt is Britain? is an ambitious collection of essays...Whyte is correct to argue that these examples point to a contemporary malaise.' (New Statesman)

'Whyte deserves huge credit for bringing different aspects of the picture together into a coherent, disturbing and persuasive expose of the hypocrisy of a country that so often likes to portray itself as some sort of beacon of probity in a corrupt world.' (The Tablet)

'NGO Transparency International tells us that it is the fourteenth most corrupt out of 177 nations and Whyte demonstrates exactly how in this myth-busting work... Many of the examples are familiar, but together they provide an unsettling narrative.' (Big Issue in the North)

At last, a book that asks the right questions about corruption, and provides some fascinating and important answers. Corruption isn’t what ― or where ― most people think it is. (Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World)

This excellent book should be read by everyone but particularly by those who harbour a belief that our liberal democracy protects against the worst forms of state-corporate crime. (Penny Green, Professor of Law and Globalisation, Queen Mary University of London, Director of the International State Crime Initiative)

L'autore:

Ines Doujak is an artist working in London and Vienna, where she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (1988–93). She was project leader of the arts based research ´Loomshuttles / Warpaths´, funded by the FWF Austrian Science Funds (2010-2014). _x000B_Oliver Ressler is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. His work has been exhibited across the world including at the Berkeley Art Museum, USA, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul and the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt. He is the editor of Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies (2007).

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• Editore: Pluto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0745335292
• ISBN 13: 9780745335292
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 198
• Redattore: Whyte David