''Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda'' is a 2006 book by Professor

Sharon Beder Sharon Beder is an environmentalist and a former professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (abbreviated as UOW) is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of W ...

. Beder argues that an international

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dictate

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for their own benefit. She suggests that they created business associations and

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s in the 1970s to drive

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, push a free trade agenda, and promote the worldwide

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and deregulation of public services in the 1980s and 1990s, and have worked since the late 1990s to rewrite the rules of the global economy. Stehlik, Tom
''Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive The Global Agenda''
April, 2007.

References

2006 non-fiction books Books about multinational companies Political books Books by Sharon Beder

External links

Beder, Sharon
''Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda''; Earthscan; 2012, pgs. 11–12. {{globalization-book-stub