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Profit Over People
- Neoliberalism & Global Order
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
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 by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and hundreds of cities economically devastated? Why would the world's most powerful military spend 10 years fighting an enemy that presents no direct threat to secure resources for corporations?
The culprit in all cases is neoliberal ideology - the belief in the supremacy of "free" markets to drive and govern human affairs. And in the years since the initial publication of Noam Chomsky's Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order, the bitter vines of neoliberalism have only twisted themselves further into the world economy, obliterating the public's voice in public affairs and substituting the bottom line in place of people's basic obligation to care for one another as ends in themselves. In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism through an incisive analysis of free trade agreements of the 1990s, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund - and describes the movements of resistance to the increasing interference by the private sector in global affairs.
In the years since the initial publication of Profit Over People, the stakes have only risen. Now more than ever, Profit Over People is one of the key texts explaining how the crisis facing us operates - and how, through Chomsky's analysis of resistance, we may find an escape from the closing net.
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- Jussie
- 27-09-23
Revealing and absolutely fascinating
Essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about how we've ended up with the huge inequality and environmental and social destruction so normalised today in 2023. You will be shocked at the lengths the minority will go to in order to gain power and subvert true democracy.
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- Edd Spencer
- 31-05-17
good book but...
Consepts are good just was hard to follow. the narrator was a bit intense and sometimes sounded quite bitter so could not listen for long. Next book of Chomsky I will look for his narration.
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- Jim
- 23-04-16
Activism at its finest
This is only my second Chomski book. I first read 'understanding power' (which I found easier to follow and more interesting). The book is interesting and I'm pleased to have learnt more about global order and the indoctrination we all experience to social structure. I found the reader to be a little flat and uninspiring and also the language and flow of the book could be improved upon. I still recommend.
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- Luke
- 11-06-23
Over Dramatic Reading
The reader had a dramatic cadence that made it hard for me personally to follow the track of information that was being conveyed. For comparison, I recently listened to Chomsky's Understanding Power, and the reader of that was had a wonderfully conversational way of reading the book.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-07-21
Eye-opening look at predatory capitalism
Chomsky should be a major contributor in the international Western news media. This book clearly indicates why he is not utilized often enough.
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- Sue
- 11-05-17
Depressing, important but unstructured
As a general Chomsky fan, his arguments are always important and well rounded. However, this book felt very unstructured and more like a long rant. He switched from one country to another making it difficult to follow his original message and it ends up being a jumble of disputes. I've definitely read better of his works.
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- Andrew
- 06-11-22
Better than I was expecting
As a classical liberal (a term I see as essentially synonymous with the 'neoliberal' ideology Chomsky is railing against) I enjoyed and agreed with this book much more than I expected. Chomsky is right to point out the vast Western hypocrisy regarding its advocacy of liberal economic policy whilst offering huge domestic corporate welfare policies. However, I fail to see how this is a legitimate criticism of liberal economics rather than a criticism of corporatism.
One section where Chomsky becomes not just confused, but outright immoral is the strange section celebrating Cuban medical internationalism. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights warned that these missions "constitute a contemporary form of slavery". These doctors often have to be prevented from running away during these foreign missions where they are trafficked around the world to serve the will of an authoritarian state, and all the while a tenured professor in his cloistered American ivory tower extols the supposed virtues of their imprisonment.
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- Augustin
- 22-02-22
subjective views
most of the book is a waste of time, lots of opinions with very few actual facts properly outlined and constructed to support said opinions... I was expecting much much more in terms of objectivity and facts.
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