Power Play

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Blackouts from California and New York to South Australia and Buenos Aires Electricity rationing in Brazil Mass protests in India, Africa, and across Latin America Enron, the seventh-largest company in America, goes bankrupt And in Auckland, New Zealand, the central business district goes without power for weeks. Welcome to the brave new world of electricity deregulation and privatisation.
In Power Play, award-winning author Sharon Beder turns a spotlight on an international confidence trick. Using her inimitable techniques of comprehensive research and forensic analysis, she shows how simplistic ideology and economic theory have been used to mask the pursuit of self-interest; how control of electricity has been wrested from public hands to create profit opportunities for investors and multinational corporations; and how an essential public service has been turned into a speculative commodity in the name of 'reform'.
Power Play explores the batdes between private and... Tovább

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Blackouts from California and New York to South Australia and Buenos Aires Electricity rationing in Brazil Mass protests in India, Africa, and across Latin America Enron, the seventh-largest company in America, goes bankrupt And in Auckland, New Zealand, the central business district goes without power for weeks. Welcome to the brave new world of electricity deregulation and privatisation.
In Power Play, award-winning author Sharon Beder turns a spotlight on an international confidence trick. Using her inimitable techniques of comprehensive research and forensic analysis, she shows how simplistic ideology and economic theory have been used to mask the pursuit of self-interest; how control of electricity has been wrested from public hands to create profit opportunities for investors and multinational corporations; and how an essential public service has been turned into a speculative commodity in the name of 'reform'.
Power Play explores the batdes between private and public ownership in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia since the early twentieth Century, and the powerful agenda-setting and public relations strategies used to secure victory for private interests. It investigares the way that developing countries such as Brazil and India have been forced to allow foreign investors to exercise a stranglehold over their electricity systems. And it uncovers the campaigns waged by think tanks, corporate interests, and multinational companies such as Enron to swindle the public in dozens of countries out of rightful control over an essential public service.
Very few books have the power to change the way that readers see the world. Power Play, like Sharon Beder's superb earlier work, Global Spin, is such a book. Vissza