The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life

by Colin Crouch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745669867
• ISBN13: 9780745669861
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"