The architecture of global governance that has emerged in the past two decades has been...

The new right advocated policies that aided the accumulation of profits and wealth in fewer...

Throughout the 20th Century business associations and coalitions coordinated mass propaganda campaigns that combined sophisticated...

Free enterprise has become the prevailing idea of our times, an idea without serious rival...

Australia's Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) is an internationally acclaimed organisation that uses private property as...

In an engineering context the precautionary principle is often perceived as an excuse to do...

This article examines the process of electricity privatisation in Australia in order to identify the...

In 1990, neo-liberal think tanks the Institute of Public Affairs and the Tasman Institute collaborated...

Environmentalists have traditionally drawn attention to environmental problems by highlighting corporate misdeeds and thereby damaged...

Ecofeminism offers a useful yet limited framework through which to critique globalisation. Ecofeminism claims that...

[Extract] The root of the environmental problem, however, is the priority given to economic considerations...

The development of political agenda-setting through the use of sophisticated public relations techniques is threatening...

[Extract] In modern industrial societies work and production have become ends in themselves. Employment has...

[Extract] The compulsion to work has clearly become pathological in modern industrial societies. Millions of...

[Extract] Tradeable pollution rights and emissions trading are being increasingly used as an environmental policy...

The ethical principle of equity, particularly intergenerational equity, is central to the concept of sustainable...

Engineering appears to be at a turning point. It is evolving from an occupation that...

This Little Kiddy Went to Market investigates the way that corporations are strategically shaping children...

Environmental Principles and Policies examines six key environmental and social principles that have been incorporated...

Throughout the 20th Century business associations and coalitions coordinated mass propaganda campaigns that combined public...

For the last forty years transnational corporations have been mobilizing behind the scenes to ensure...

Power Play argues persuasively that the track record of electricity privatisation and deregulation around the...

Global Spin reveals the sophisticated techniques being used around the world by powerful conservative forces...

At the onset of the twenty first century work and production have become ends in...

So-called »free« markets are becoming the new organising principle for the global order. The idea...

The news is presented to give the impression it is factual, uncoloured by journalistic bias,...

Environmentalists in the late 1960s and 1970s argued that the exponential growth of populations and...

Dozens of governments have embarked on the pathway to electricity deregulation and privatisation since the...

The Japanese electricity industry is currently being gradually deregulated in the hopes that high electricity...

This chapter examines the way in which capitalism has been underpinned by a self-conscious propaganda...

[Extract] The work ethic is one of the most neglected problems in society today, and...

While the major thrust of this volume is an examination of the psychosocial origins and...

The media are accused of bias by people from both ends of the political spectrum,...

The development of political agenda-setting through the use of sophisticated public relations techniques is threatening...

[Extract] In 2000 the transnational oil giant BP Amoco rebranded itself as "bp: beyond petroleum."...

This chapter examines the way that corporations have used their financial resources and power to...

Market and property-rights based approaches to environmental problems have been heavily promoted by conservative think...

In most cases the use of market mechanisms to protect the environment aim to maximise...

Timber preserved with Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) is ubiquitous in Australia. Wood, such as radiata...