Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life
Colin Crouch
€ 22.94
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life
Paperback. * Colin Crouch has recently become one of the world's leading voices on neoliberalism and the financial takeover of social values * In this new book, Crouch continues to explore the themes of his previous successful books: Post-Democracy, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism and Making Capitalism Fit For Society. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy. Crouch shows that executives in profit-maximizing corporations have incentives to ignore or distort knowledge, especially firms in the information business of the mass media themselves, as financial knowledge increasingly trumps the other kinds of knowledge that business needs. Firms also seek to take control of public ... Read more
In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy. Crouch shows that executives in profit-maximizing corporations have incentives to ignore or distort knowledge, especially firms in the information business of the mass media themselves, as financial knowledge increasingly trumps the other kinds of knowledge that business needs. Firms also seek to take control of public ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
274g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745669861
SKU
V9780745669861
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Colin Crouch
Colin Crouch is Professor Emeritus of the University of Warwick, and the External Scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research at Cologne. His many books include Post-democracy, The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism, and Making Capitalism Fit for Society.
Reviews for The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life
Accessible to all, here's a book to be read by all who rely on increasingly beleaguered 'public services'. We can see how reliant our politicians have become on what some have called 'policy - based evidence' rather than 'evidence-based policy'. Crouch shows with his customary incisive clarity why this hasn't worked and just what's wrong with relying so heavily on ... Read more