Product Details
Simon & Schuster UK, May 2010
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1416526048
ISBN-13: 9781416526049
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Why do so many people around the world appear willing to give up freedoms in return for security or prosperity? For the past 60 years it had been assumed that capitalism was intertwined with liberal democracy. But what happens when both are undermined?
Governments globally have drawn up a new pact with their peoples: repression is confined to the few who openly challenge the status quo. The rest of the population can enjoy freedom to live more or less as they wish, and to make and spend their money. This is the difference between public freedoms and private freedoms. We choose different freedoms we are prepared to cede. We all do it.
Freedom for Sale will set a new agenda. It will crucially ask why so many intelligent and ambitious citizens around the world seemed prepared to sacrifice freedom of the press and freedom of speech in their quest for wealth.
Governments globally have drawn up a new pact with their peoples: repression is confined to the few who openly challenge the status quo. The rest of the population can enjoy freedom to live more or less as they wish, and to make and spend their money. This is the difference between public freedoms and private freedoms. We choose different freedoms we are prepared to cede. We all do it.
Freedom for Sale will set a new agenda. It will crucially ask why so many intelligent and ambitious citizens around the world seemed prepared to sacrifice freedom of the press and freedom of speech in their quest for wealth.
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How did you come to write this book?
I wanted to answer a question that had been bothering me, and galvanizing me, for some time: why is it that so many people around the world, including people I know and respect, appear willing to trade certain liberties in return for the promise of either prosperity or security?
Guardian.co.uk, June 5, 2010
...John Kampfner examines Singapore to ask whether freedom can be sacrificed for prosperity, writes Peter Preston Kampfner, political journalist turned human rights campaigner, addresses the anaesthetised freedom of the city state ...
Index on Censorship, May 24, 2010
...and special guests. Index will have events on both weekends of the festival. On 30 May, Chief Executive John Kampfner discusses his latest book Freedom for Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty More details here On 6 June, ...
Index on Censorship, April 12, 2010
...In a speech to Amnesty International’s national conference John Kampfner talks self-censorship, Nick Griffin and why free speech means fighting for the rights of people whose views you find obnoxious Freedom of conscience and freedom of ...
American Civil Liberties Union, March 23, 2010
...all over the world have been willing to trade many of their freedoms for the promise of security. John Kampfner's new book, JJ: Your book notes the willingness of people all over the world to sacrifice civil liberties for the promise and ...
CHINAdaily, February 9, 2010
...all wars" to "anti-terrorism", so many beautiful reasons have become excuses for US global strategy. And British journalist John Kampfner says in his new book, Freedom For Sale, that democracy, liberty and capitalism rely heavily upon each ...
Asian Age, January 29, 2010
...Rediscovery of India) with the erudite Nayantara Sehgal, Chetan Bhagat and Meghnad — as well as another on Freedom for Sale in which the participants include Anne Applebaum, John Kampfner, Niall Ferguson and Steve Coll. Every evening ...
Individual.com, January 20, 2010
...(McClatchy-Tribune Informa) In his latest book, Freedom for Sale, noted British journalist and political commentator John Kampfner notes a startling phenomenon -- the middle class seems to be willing to give up their public and political ...
938 LIVE, January 14, 2010
...promise of either prosperity or security or both?' The question is being posed by British author and journalist John Kampfner who has recently published Freedom For Sale. In it, he argues that the quality of democracy all over the world has ...
Abu Dhabi National, December 10, 2009
...deliver growth and suppress dissent. George Scialabba contemplates the new pact between the middle classes and their governments.Freedom for Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty John KampfnerSimon & Schuster Dh54Post-Cold War history ...
Guardian.co.uk, November 21, 2009
...about the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. A timely and penetrating audit of authoritarianism around the world came from John Kampfner's Freedom for Sale (Simon & Schuster). While highly critical of the trajectory of the present government, he ...
Index on Censorship, October 21, 2009
...With John Kampfner, Chief Executive, 1:00pm-2:30pm At the Bhattacharyya Seminar Room, ippr, 30- 32 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7RA Established as the two most fundamental principles of the Western socio-economic ...
Observer, September 12, 2009
...John Kampfner's study of the Singapore style of government ? now spreading across the world ? chillingly shows how much is lost under this brand of democracy, says Peter Preston ...
The Independent, September 10, 2009
...in terms of democracy, as commonly understood, progress was negligible. In Russia's case, there was even backsliding. John Kampfner sets out to examine the pact that he discerns in these, and other, countries between the rulers and the ...
Metro.co.uk, September 9, 2009
...John Kampfner's latest book gives us his doom-laden take on the global slide away from civil liberties, and anyone who followed his confrontational run as New Statesman editor will not ...
Taipei Times Online, September 5, 2009
... Page 14 J John Kampfner, a British foreign correspondent and former editor of the leftist New Statesman, is a man with a theory. The gist lies in the title of his new book, Freedom ...
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