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Shooting The Hippo [Hardcover]

Linda Mcquaig (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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. McQuaig, in a well documented readable argument, assails the myths of international business and exposes its complete moral and financial bankruptcy

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4.0 out of 5 stars Should be read in school May 14 2004
By Doc Madsen
Format:Paperback
While the right wingers will hate it....who cares about them they don't like you anyways. This is a book that gives you stats to back up what she says(not the lies of the likes of mathew fraser)A must read if you like Moore, or Frankin
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent,well documented account of 'econmic reality' Mar 12 1999
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
McQuaig has written an economic book for all the people who don't make $500,000 plus a year. This is the book that has free enterprisers in shock! There is a conspiracy and it involves the massive transfer of ordinary peoples' wealth to the corporations that would not last a year without it. McQuaig, in a well documented readable argument, assails the myths of international business and exposes its complete moral and financial (!) bankruptcy. From the tyranny of the gold standard, used to imprison our grandfathers and grandmothers, to the current myth of the fickle international investor which is being used to destroy two generations of social progress McQuaig describes a world which is not kinder, or gentler to anyone not born into money.

If you want to understand why rabid antigovernment hedge fund investors receive billion dollar government (!) bail-outs while millions of people in hurricane ravaged Central America are offered less than a dollar each in aid to rebuild there lives this is the book for you.

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4.0 out of 5 stars important content, weak narrative May 20 2012
By ogilive
Format:Paperback
McQuaig presents a fairly comprehensive account of the campaign in the 1990s to gut social programs by the C.D. Howe Institute, Macleans, and Globe & Mail editorialists, amongst others. Her writing style, however, is extremely redundant; most issues are explained three or four times in a row, with only slightly different wordings. There are also ten- or twenty-page asides (e.g., on the history of American monetary policy) that could easily be condensed into one or two paragraphs. Nevertheless, there is enough compelling content for the book to be of interest to learned scholars and ample overexplanation for less knowledgeable readers.
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