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Compliance-heavy rules
On February 25, 2021, the Centre notified the Information Technology (Guidelines for Intermediaries and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021 (Rules). The Rules seek to regulate Social Media Platforms, with greater compliances on platforms having a user base of more than 50 lakh users (Significant Social Media Platforms).
How Capital Strikes Yanked Barack Obama’s Presidency to the Right
Excerpt from Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It, by Tarun Banerjee, Michael Schwartz, and Kevin A. Young (Verso Books, July 2020). The Barack Obama administration initiated a host of new legislation designed to advance the interests of business.
(PDF) CAPITAL STRIKES AS A CORPORATE POLITICAL STRATEGY: The Structural Power of Business in the Obama Era
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A Different Substance
Politics August 20, 2020 • An excerpt from Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It Tarun Banerjee, Michael Schwartz, and Kevin A. Young Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It by Kevin A. Young, Tarun Banerjee, and Michael Schwartz. Brooklyn, NY: Verso. 224 pages. $23.
The Secret to Corporate Power
Campaign finance is part of the problem, but have you heard of the “capital strike”? In 1931, the philosopher John Dewey lamented that “politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.” Government “in general is an echo,” and at times a direct “accomplice, of the interests of big business.” Dewey was writing in the early years of the Great Depression, as unchecked capitalism had plunged the world into crisis and his government was doing nothing to solve the problem.
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Class Dominance or Fracturing? Sources of Broad Interest in Lobbying by Fortune 500 Corporations - Tarun Banerjee, Joshua Murray,
Ansolabehere, Stephen, Snyder, James M., Tripathi, Micky. 2002. “Are PAC Contributions and Lobbying Linked? New Evidence from the 1995 Lobby Disclosure Act.” Business and Politics 4(2):131–55. Google Scholar | Crossref Banerjee, Tarun, Burroway, Rebekah. 2015. “Business Unity and Anticorporate Protests: The U.S. Fortune 500 in 2010.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 20(2):179–206. Google Scholar | Crossref Banerjee, Tarun, Murray, Joshua. 2015.
Alcohol policy needed for lockdowns: No need to detest booze, say mental health experts
Home MarketsNewsIndustryRISEPoliticsWealth MFTechJobsOpinionBlogsNRIPanacheMultimediaET NOW DurablesElectronicsFashion / Cosmetics / JewelleryFMCGFoodGarments / TextilesLiquorPaintsTobacco Business News›Industry›Cons. Products›Liquor When medical experts say liquor sales should be intelligently regulated, so that demand can be met and crowding avoided, governments should listen. Home delivery from shops and online purchases must be allowed immediately.
When Capitalists Go on Strike
A manufacturer refuses to invest in the United States until the government cuts taxes and loosens “environmental regulations and hiring rules.” The CEO of a top technology firm flatly states that the $181 billion stored in an overseas tax haven won’t come “back until there’s a fair rate.” Despite several trillion dollars in reserves, banks and corporations collectively refuse to make loans or hire new employees.
When Capitalists Go on Strike
It’s not just “money in politics” — capitalists get what they want through structural power over the economy.
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