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Free markets are an illusion

Ketil Fred Hansen
Review written by Ketil Fred Hansen
The Political Power of Global Corporations
Forfatter: John Mikler
Forlag: Polity Press (USA)
John Mikler claims that the world's largest companies are so economically superior to their competitors that it is wrong to talk about global markets and free competition.




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Ketil Fred Hansen
Ketil Fred Hansen
Hansen is a professor of social sciences at UiS and a regular reviewer at Ny Tid.

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