Dark money how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US
"Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower ta...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Brunswick, Victoria, London
Scribe Publications
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers?" -- Publisher The investors -- Weaponizing philanthropy : the war on ideas, 1970-2008. Radicals : a Koch family history ; The hidden hand : Richard Mellon Scaife ; Beachheads : John M. Olin and the Bradley brothers ; The Koch method : free-market mayhem ; The Kochtopus : free-market machine -- Secret sponsors : covert operations, 2009-2010. Boots on the ground ; Tea time ; The fossils ; Money is speech : the long road to "Citizens United" ; The shellacking : dark money's midterm debut, 2010 -- Privatizing politics : total combat, 2011-2014. The spoils : plundering Congress ; Mother of all wars : the 2012 setback ; The States : gaining ground ; Selling the new Koch : a better battle plan |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 449 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781925321715 978-1-925321-71-5 9781925228847 978-1-925228-84-7 |