Freunden von diesem Artikel berichten:
The Subsidy Scandal: How Your Government Wastes Your Money to Wreck Your Environment
Charlie Pye-smith
The Subsidy Scandal: How Your Government Wastes Your Money to Wreck Your Environment
Charlie Pye-smith
Governments spend trillions every year on subsidies to a whole host of industries, ranging from agriculture to mining, energy to transport. Subsidies are supposed to contribute to the public good, but do they? In the vast majority of cases, the money, much of it derived from public taxes, is not merely wasted, it is used to wreck the environment. All too often, subsidies go to those who least need them -- frequently to corporations and special interest groups which recycle some of the funds to support the politicians who keep the subsidies going.
Charlie Pye-Smith has written a riveting and eye-opening book on this huge racket. Based on research in North America, with examples from Europe and elsewhere, "The Subsidy Scandal" "follows the money" to find out where it goes and what it produces.
Pye-Smith's travels are vibrantly illuminated by interviews with bureaucrats, politicians, loggers, farmers, miners, fishermen, industrialists and environmentalists, and with their help he tells stories of such economic absurdity and environmental vandalism, as would barely be credible if they weren't true.
"The Subsidy Scandal" raises major questions about the way we are governed -- and misgoverned -- and highlights the need for urgent, world-wide reform.
Medien | Bücher Gebundenes Buch (Buch mit hartem Rücken und steifem Einband) |
Erscheinungsdatum | 1. September 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9781853839023 |
Verlag | Earthscan Publications Ltd. |
Seitenanzahl | 250 |
Maße | 311 × 25 × 225 mm · 453 g |
Sprache | Englisch |
Weitere Titel von Charlie Pye-smith
Andere Titel dieser Serie
Alle Titel von Charlie Pye-smith ansehen ( u. a. Gebundenes Buch und Taschenbuch )