Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the New Order

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Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them and create a global financial crisis The culprit is neoliberal ideology, the belief in the supremacy of free markets to drive and govern human affairs. Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, traces the history of neoliberalism through an analysis of free trade agreements, the WTO and the IMF and describes the movements of resistance.

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Profit Over Peopleis Noam Chomsky at his best. His critique of our political and economic system is brilliant and devastating. This is a powerful rush of facts and ideas. Don't stand too close. Howard Zinn

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"NOAM CHOMSKY is known throughout the world for his political and philosophical writings as well as for his groundbreaking linguistics work. He has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955 and remains one of America's most uncompromising voices of dissent."