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1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations. |
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PERC papers
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Section one. Public news media -- Does public media enhance citizen knowledge? : sifting through the evidence / Toril Aalberg -- The impact of austerity on the Greek news media and public sphere / Aris Nikolaidis -- Impoverishing the mediated public sphere in Aotearoa New Zealand / Wayne Hope -- Public-commercial hybridity at BBC world online / Kate Wright -- The new American media landscape / Rod Benson -- Section two. Public knowledge in Britain -- The autonomous school, the strong state, the problems of education / Ken Jones -- The treasury view of higher education: variable human capital investment / Andrew McGettigan -- The coalition government's cuts to legal aid : who is counting the cost? / Roger Smith -- Public libraries in the age of austerity : the gloves are off / Ian Anstice -- Section three. The corruption of news and information in markets -- The edge : investment banks and information flows in public markets / Philip Augar -- The libor scandal : mediation and information issues / Peter Thompson -- The press, market ideologies and the Irish housing crash / Henry Silke -- Section four. The encroachment of private knowledge on public policy-making -- The corporate takeover of economic discourse in Korea / Bong-hyun Lee -- The tropes of unlearning : UK responses to outsourcing fiascos / Mick Moran and Karel Williams -- Meet the new American influence elites / Janine Wedel -- Public knowledge and health policy / Colin Leys -- Conclusion: manifesto for public knowledge / Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Education and state -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain.
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Mass media -- Economic aspects.
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Information policy -- Economic aspects.
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Mass media policy.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Electronic books.
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Davis, Aeron, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Death of public knowledge? : how free markets destroy the general intellect. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Goldsmiths Press, 2017 177 pages 9781906897390 (DLC) 2016043793 |
| ISBN |
9781906897390 |
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9781906897437 (e-book) |
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9781906897413 (e-book) |
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