Noam Chomsky,Arthur Naiman,David Barsamian
According to ,The New York Times,, Noam Chomsky is â€œarguably the most important intellectual alive.â€ But he isnâ€™t easy to read . . . or at least he wasnâ€™t until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, accessible, reader-friendly prose.,Published as four short books in the famous ,Real Story, seriesâ€”,What Uncle Sam Really Wants,; ,The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many,; ,Secrets, Lies and Democracy,; and ,The Common Good,â€”theyâ€™ve collectively sold almost 600,000 copies.,And they continue to sell year after year after year because Chomskyâ€™s ideas become, if anything, ,more, relevant as time goes by. For example, twenty years ago he pointed out that â€œin 1970, about 90% of international capital was used for trade and long-term investmentâ€”more or less productive thingsâ€”and 10% for speculation. By 1990, those figures had reversed.â€ As we know, speculation continued to increase exponentially. Weâ€™re paying the price now for not heeding him them.
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