The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
by Dean Baker · 15 Jul 2006 · 234pp · 53,078 words
a check on the ability of corporate management to pilfer money for its own use have broken down. This may be partly attributable to the spread of share ownership, so that instances where a single family maintains control of a major corporation (and therefore can keep its management in line) are less common. It
Creating Unequal Futures?: Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage
by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders · 1 Jul 2001 · 267pp · 79,905 words
and investment. The pursuit of shareholder value causes endless restructures and cost shifting exercises which adversely affect the workforce. Far from solving the problem, the spread of share ownership and of privately based superannuation actually destabilises the situation further. As Froud and her colleagues put it: what we have is a Keynesian paradox about
No Such Thing as Society
by Andy McSmith · 19 Nov 2010 · 613pp · 151,140 words
taken over by Lloyds. But these problems lay in the future. At the time, the flotation of Abbey National was one more development in the spread of share-ownership that began with the sale of British Telecom. The Thatcher government stumbled on this, its f agship policy, rather late. Before 1983, it sold off
Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values
by Sharon Beder · 30 Sep 2006 · 273pp · 34,920 words
for most Australians’.15 In addition, finance programmes were increasingly featured on popular television channels.16 Adele Horin in the Sydney Morning Herald noted: The spread of share ownership to the middle class is changing how we spend our time, what we talk about, celebrate, worry about. It has even changed what we watch