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Nation columnist Naomi Klein explores a key argument from her new book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism: After 9/11 the Bush Administration launched a new economy, driven by the notion of an endless war against an undefined notion of evil. Read more in her 2005 Nation column "The Rise of Disaster Capitalism."
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Amory Lovins is Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute. Lovins is active in crafting policy around the world in the fields of energy, resource, environmental development, and security, chiefly in the private sector. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures [12/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15123]
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Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange, warns of the risks both to country and to capitalism posed by government regulators in the form of the the National Securities Exchange Act. This almost four full years before he was sent to Sing Sing Prison for embezzlement.
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Harvard labor economist Richard Freeman explores how social inequality and globalization are threatening the foundation of democracy in the United States in this Jefferson Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [2/2008] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Business] [Show ID: 13571]
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http://www.weforum.o rg/annualmeeting 24.01.2008
A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century
William H. Gates III, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Chaired by
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum