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The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth
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2019
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3 editions
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The Trouble With Billionaires: Why Too Much Money At The Top Is Bad For Everyone
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2010
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13 editions
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It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet
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2005
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6 editions
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Shooting the hippo: Death by deficit and other Canadian myths
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All You Can Eat Greed Lust And The Triumph Of The New Capitalism
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2001
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5 editions
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Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire
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2007
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Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of Powerlessness in the Global Economy
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1998
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2 editions
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Billionaires' Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
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2012
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The Wealthy Banker's Wife
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1993
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Quick And The Dead
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1991
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“Jeremy Bentham argued that 'even in the best of times the great mass of citizens will most probably possess few resources other than their daily labour and, consequently, be always near indigence'. As long as working man was near indigence, hunger would remain an effective tool to goad him to labour. Bentham argued that an important task of government was to ensure conditions of deprivation, thereby guaranteeing that hunger would [be a constant motivation to work].”
― Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of Powerlessness in the Global Economy
― Cult of Impotence: Selling the Myth of Powerlessness in the Global Economy
“All societies take care of their material needs, and the pursuit of private gain is always present. But the attainment of personal possessions had been, for the most part of history, considered a less important mark of distinction and status than the demonstration of other traits...
According to Polyani, this thinking fundamentally changed in the last five centuries and in parts of the Western world as, with the rise of capitalism, feudal society was reorganized around the principles of the marketplace. It is only in the resulting capitalist works that displays of feed and the pursuit of material gain have been considered worthy behaviour - behavior that is actively encouraged and even regarded as the very essence of the human personality.”
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According to Polyani, this thinking fundamentally changed in the last five centuries and in parts of the Western world as, with the rise of capitalism, feudal society was reorganized around the principles of the marketplace. It is only in the resulting capitalist works that displays of feed and the pursuit of material gain have been considered worthy behaviour - behavior that is actively encouraged and even regarded as the very essence of the human personality.”
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