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Societal deception : global social issues in post-truth times / Geoffrey Lawrence.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrence, Geoffrey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fake news--Social aspects.
- Fake news.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 461 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2024]
- Contents:
- 1. Who Can You Believe? Of Media, Misinformation, and Trumpery
- Who's Doin' the Foolin'?
- Ads, Ads, and More Ads
- Trusting Brains in the Brain Trust
- Then There's the Media
- From Shock Jocks to Influencers
- Be Sure to Get Your Way
- Faking It
- Notes
- 2 It's the Economy, Stupid! Neoliberal Nonsense and the Myths of the Free Market
- Grounds for Doubt
- The Many Myths of Liberal Economic Theory
- Myth 1: The Rational Actor
- Myth 2: Perfect Competition
- Myth 3: Income Is Determined by Contribution to Production
- Myth 4: Global free Trade Is of Benefit to Everyone
- Myth 5: The Nation's Budget is Like a Household Budget and Should Be 'Balanced'
- Myth 6: Economics Is a Science
- Capitalism: The 'System We Know and Love'?
- Chicago Boys
- Some Boats Rising, Most Boats Sinking
- Financing the Future
- Just What Is Financialisation?
- Are We Are All Neolibs Now?
- 3 From Seedling to Supermarket: Farming, Fast Food, and the Fabrication of Trust
- All Farmed Out
- From Green Revolution to Gene Revolution
- Learning Our ABCDs
- Super-Marketed
- Recall This
- Fabricating Trust
- Fun with Fast Food
- Feeding the Lie
- Coaxing the Kiddies
- Globesity90
- 4 Saving the Planet with Pesticides and Plastic: Corporate Profiteering and Planetary Destruction
- Chemical Concoctions
- Financing the Furphy
- Classic Cover-Ups
- Meltdown Mayhem
- Warming to Climate Change
- What Is Going On?
- The Denial Machine
- 5 The Power to Lie: Propaganda and Post-truth Politics
- Perfecting Propaganda
- Oh, Those Russians
- Chinese Checkers
- Living the Dream
- A Web of Deceit
- Empire Records
- The Butcher's Apron
- Up for Grabs
- 6 Praying for Salvation: Forgeries and Fallacies of Religion
- Back to the Future
- Could We Be so Silly?
- The Idea of 'Belief'
- What Makes Us Believe?
- Miracles and Manipulation
- Bad Habits
- One of the Greats
- Cooking the Books
- Pussies in Paradise
- Thank God for Darwin
- Imagine No Deception-It's Easy If You Try
- 7 The Ultimate Diversion: Sport as False Consciousness?
- My Sporting Life
- In the Beginning ...
- Writing the Rules
- Deceptive Moves
- Stealing Gold
- La tromperie de France
- Sportswashing-Cleaning the Image
- 8 The Future: Confronting the Culprits
- Disappearing Acts
- Facing the Future
- Information Flows
- Turning Down the Thermostat
- Earthly Preoccupations
- Our Daily Bread
- Capital Ideas
- Dangling Democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 1, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lawrence, Geoffrey. Societal deception.
- ISBN:
- 1349961078
- 9781349961078
- Publisher Number:
- 90101292725
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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