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Making the Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

By David Cavett-Goodwin — Monday, December 3rd, 2007 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… and respect (The Body Shop website, 2006).
The next table shows the financial performance of The Body Shop, according to their 2006 annual report:

SUMMARY

2005

2006

Change

Retail Sales

724.0

772.0

+7%

Turnover

419.0

485.8

+16%

Operating Profit

39.2

41.5

+6%

Earnings per …

Author: David Cavett-Goodwin




Forces Constructing Consent for the Neoliberal Project

By David Cavett-Goodwin — Sunday, January 13th, 2008 (Posted in Essays & Articles)

… Edward S. and Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
Peck, Jamie and Adam Tickell. “Neoliberalizing Space.” Antipode, 2002: 380-404.
Schmidt, Vivien A “The Politics of Economic Adjustment in France and Britain: When Does Discourse Matter?” Journal of European Public Policy 8:2 April 2001: 247-264. …

Author: David Cavett-Goodwin




Free Software as a Social Movement

By Cultural Shifts — Saturday, December 1st, 2007 (Posted in Editorials & Interviews)

… so they call it “trusted computing”; from the user’s point of view, it is treacherous. Which name you call it expresses whose side you’re on. The new XBox is a preview–it is designed to prevent the user from installing any software without getting Microsoft’s authorization. Here’s more explanation from my essay, ‘Can you trust your computer’: …




On the Realism of Manuel DeLanda (and Gilles Deleuze)

By Matthew Lymburner — Saturday, November 24th, 2007 (Posted in Editorials & Interviews)

… we can never know it because our understanding of it will always be mediated by our surroundings.

Comment by Josh Massey: … that his writings will be more …