It's All for Sale: The Control of Global Resources

by James Ridgeway

Book Overview

Five companies dominate the U.S. petroleum industry. Five control the worldwide trade in grain. Two have a corner on the private market for drinking water. In terms of actual dollars, trade in heroin,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822333740
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.7" x 6.1"

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I can't believe I'm the first person to review this book?! I think any social entrepreneur/activist would benefit from this summary of how our surroundings, and even our bodies, are being commiditized. The most disturbing statistic in the book for me was how there are more people in slavery today than at any other time in human history?! I think a book like this compliments 'The World is Flat' very well. There is a dark underbelly to globalization that can be remedied by socially conscious captilism. (...)