You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom by Nick Cohen

Author:Nick Cohen [Cohen, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, pdf, mobi
Tags: General, Political Science, Political Freedom, Civil Rights, Censorship
ISBN: 9780007308903
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2012-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

With millions in excessive debt and millions jobless, one might have expected a surge of protest against managerialism and hierarchy. By the autumn of 2011, the banks had received almost £1 trillion in subsidies in the form of cheap Bank of England loans and deposit and debt guarantees, given by the state on condition that they improved lending to British businesses. The banks took the money, but did not lend, because there were no easy profits or easy bonuses in business loans. The most unjustly rewarded executives in the world had wrecked Western economies and shown no willingness to change their ways. Yet it never occurred to the supposedly liberal-left governments of Barack Obama and Gordon Brown to provide incentives to allow employees to speak up and speak truthfully, or to impose penalties on those who stayed silent. Governments did not promise to provide full compensation to bankers who revealed their corporations’ risky policies. They did not say that all bureaucracies, public as well as private, should allow elected workers’ representatives on their boards, who might provide a fair hearing to those who suspected their managers were going haywire. They did not say that bailed-out banks should remain under accountable state control because the government could not do a worse job than the private sector. Nor was there irresistible public pressure on them to reform.

It was as if the citizens of the West did not want to know.

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