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...The reviewer is an FT commentator The Knowledge Economy, by Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Verso, £20, 304 pages...
...A large part of the problem, he argues, is that for countless employees giant US corporations now act more like steamrollers than shock-absorbers....
...A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration, by Eric Hazan, translated by David Fernbach, Verso, RRP£12.99/$22.95, 208 pages Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950, by Agnès Poirier,...
...Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life, by Adam Greenfield, Verso, RRP£18.99/$29.95 Our dependence on smartphones, digital corporations, GPS and the super-wealthy tech sector already seems intense...
...For millions of people around the globe, this is what the future holds: each worker a one-person corporation, a droplet in what some are calling the “human cloud”....
...But that is exactly what happened to Verso Corporation, a Tennessee- based paper producer backed by private equity group Apollo Global....
...The Games: A Global History of the Olympics, by David Goldblatt, Macmillan, RRP£20/$29.95, 516 pages Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics, by Jules Boykoff, Verso, RRP£11.99/$19.95, 216 pages...
...Last Futures, by Douglas Murphy, Verso, RRP£20/$29.95 The 1960s and 1970s were, according to Douglas Murphy, the last days of the future....
...Verso trades now at just over $3.00, way better than $0.80, but not as good as above $4.00. Which brings us to this stock price chart of the casino company, Caesars Entertainment Corporation....
...James Meek’s is the author of ‘Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else’ (Verso) £12.99 Photographs: Sarah Rose; Rex...
...Land Grabbing: Journeys in the New Colonialism, by Stefano Liberti, (Verso, RRP£14.99/RRP$24.95) We live in an era in which 3D printers can spit out meals, and perfectly formed aubergines are grown by the...
...George Saunders, Bloomsbury, RRP£14.99/Random House, RRP$26 Saunders sets this collection of short stories in a dystopian near-future, where human connection and empathy is undermined by giant, uncaring corporations...
...Altai, by Wu Ming, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Verso, RRP£16.99, 272 pages Italy’s mischievous literary collective returns with a 16th-century epic about a Venetian spycatcher whose quest takes him from...
...The Return of the Public, by Dan Hind, Verso, RRP£14.99 The news media are broken, Dan Hind believes: radically broken....
...The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?...
...The End of the Free Market: Who Wins The War Between States and Corporations?...
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
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