Charles Derber, Author Berrett-Koehler Publishers $19.95 (291p) ISBN 978-1-57675-292-0
The titular anti-war quip gets inflated into a world system in this feisty but glib left-populist manifesto. Sociologist Derber pegs the current era as a""third corporate regime""--successor to the New Deal regime that succumbed to Reagan's...
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Charles Derber, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-19288-4
We must take up a ""positive populism"" to defend society against corporations, while at the same time protecting the health of business, argues Boston College sociologist Derber (The Wilding of America). Derber begins with a useful, somewhat...
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Charles Derber, Author Faber & Faber $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-571-12917-1
Wilding, or random violence by prowling inner-city youth gangs, is symptomatic of ``individualism run amuck,'' writes Boston College sociology professor Derber. In a rousing but scattershot jeremiad on the decline of American values, he broadly...
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Charles Derber, Author, Noam Chomsky, Et, Preface by . St. Martin's $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-30669-4
Sociologist Derber (Corporation Nation) has a breezy writing style, slightly more academic than that of Thomas Friedman, whom he invokes often in this critique of the increasing trend toward globalization. Where Friedman sees globalization as an...
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Charles Derber, Author, Noam Chomsky, Et, Preface by Picador USA $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14069-4
Boston College sociologist Derber (Power in the Highest Degree) borrows the term ``wilding"" from the notorious ""Central Park jogger'' case--where it referred to gang violence--to encompass economic, political and social abuses based on greed,...
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Charles Derber, Author . Paradigm $18.95 (268p) ISBN 978-1-59451-812-6
Derber, professor of sociology at Boston College, makes a radical but persuasive argument that our current form of capitalism, with its short-term thinking, is the cause of climate change, and that we can't solve the latter without confronting...
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