Captive state: The corporate takeover of Britain - Hardcover

George Monbiot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333901649 ISBN 13: 9780333901649

Publisher: Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

George Monbiot seeks to uncover what many have suspected but few have been able to prove: that big business is taking over Britain. "Captive State" documents the end of representative government in Britain. The traditional business of government - economic and development planning, law and order, protection of the workforce, consumer and environment - is rapidly being twisted out of its hands. The state is no longer the initiator of policy but an increasingly helpless bystander. Quietly, the state, the police, academia and the nominally independent media are falling into the hands of private business. And as institutional corruption strikes at the heart of public life, in a contrast between the desires of big business and the needs of the electorate, the electorate loses out every time.

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About the Author:

George Monbiot has been named by the Evening Standard as one of the twenty-five most influential people in Britain and by the Independent on Sunday as one of the forty international prophets of the twenty-first century. He is the author of the investigative travel books, Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. He writes a column for the Guardian and is Honorary Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Keele, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Environmental Science, University of East London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0333901649
• ISBN 13: 9780333901649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320