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In the free market we trust. Look where that's got us.
With our economy based upon money as illusory as God's love, Bob Ellis calls time on free market fundamentalism.
We put our faith in a system that awards do-nothing CEOs with millions as their companies collapse and provoke a global crisis. We judge corporate success on the number of sackings, fund the privatisation of essential services with public money and favour cheap goods discounted by the loss of our jobs. We sign up for wars in which capitalism makes a killing.
Continuing from his classic dissection of economic rationalism, First Abolish the Customer, Ellis presents 345 arguments challenging the free market orthodoxy with ferocious intelligence and wit. His free-flowing meditation on the gross inequalities in our society contends that we are irresponsibly fixated on the sale of goods, instead of on delivering jobs that put money into people's hands. Skewering the legacies of Thatcherism, he proposes some radically simple remedies, including restoring tariffs, investing in country towns and restricting corporate salaries.
The Capitalism Delusion is vintage Ellis: exasperated, impolite and inspiring.
Special Online Price Only Unfortunately this item is either out of print or no longer available from our regular suppliers, we can no longer obtain stock of this item, and have sold out of stock in our stores. You may be interested in our similar titles below. | ISBN 13: | 9780143203360 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Dimensions: | 198 x 128mm |
| Released: | 01/10/2009 |
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Bob Ellis divides his time between screen writing, film directing, broadcasting, song writing, acting, mob oratory, regular journalism and ceremonial speech writing, a rigorous round of dining out and theatre-going, and his family.
Ellis' screenwriting credits, 'Newsfront', 'Goodbye Paradise', 'Maybe This Time' and the Paul Cox collaborations, 'Man Of Flowers' and 'My First Wife', all won major Australian prizes, as did his children's films, 'Fatty Finn', 'Top Kid' and 'The Paper Boy'. He is also the director of 'The Nostradamus Kid' and other feature films.
His books, including 'The Things We Did Last Summer', 'Two Weeks In Another Country', 'Goodbye Jerusalem', 'The Hewson Tapes', 'The Essential Ellis', 'First Abolish The Customer', and 'So It Goes' are regarded in his native land as small classics.
Bob Ellis' position as a war correspondent, social commentator, theatre owner, documentary director, dispirited collaborator with Werner Hertzog, nightclub turn and political mover is possibly unique. His hobbies are eating, conversation, film going, cricket, reading, and exploring the Ring of Kerry. He is now in his fifties, overweight but healthy, and a curiously happy man.
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