The silent takeover : global capitalism and the death of democracy / Noreena Hertz

Includes bibliographical references

Provides a new and startling take on the way we live now, and who really govern us, showing how across the world corporations manipulate and pressurise governments, by means of legal and illegal; how protest, be it in the form of the protesters of Seattle and Prague of the boycotting of GM foods, is becoming a more effective political weapon than the ballot-box, and how corporations in many parts of the world are taking over from the state responsibility for everything from providing technology for schools to health-care for the community