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Recommended Reading

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Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton , Buy at Powells and Support BEN

No Logo: Taking Aim At the Brand Bullies
by Naomi Klein , Buy at Powells and Support BEN

Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain
by George Monbiot, Buy at Powells and Support BEN

What is CSR? Free download of introduction to CSR now available
Crane&Matten

We've just posted online our introduction to CSR from our 2008 text co-written with Laura Spence, Corporate Social Responsibility: Readings and Cases in a Global Context. It's available for free download here at the Social Science Research Network, albeit only in the pre-typeset version.

Corporate Benevolence and Corporate Despotism
by Phil Mattera, DirtDiggers Digest

When we worry about the influence of big business on our existence these days, we generally think about a variety of companies: our employer, the financial institutions that handle our money, the drug companies that treat our ailments, the agribusiness firms that feed us, the telecoms that allow us to communicate, etc.

Infographic: Politicians Funded by Dirty Energy
by Cliff Kuang, fastcodesign

Just how much is that senator getting, and what companies are doling it out?

The illusion of diversity: visualizing ownership in the soft drink industry
by Philip H. Howard Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/softdrinks.html

Three firms control 89% of US soft drink sales [1]. This dominance is obscured from us by the appearance of numerous choices on retailer shelves. Steve Hannaford refers to this as "pseudovariety," or the illusion of diversity, concealing a lack of real choice [2]. To visualize the extent of pseudovariety in this industry we developed a cluster diagram to represent the number of soft drink brands and varieties found in the refrigerator cases of 94 Michigan retailers, along with their ownership connections.

Bobbing in Petroleum - Oil Change International and DirtyEnergyMoney.com
Oil Change International

Dirty Energy Money is an interactive tool that tracks the flow of oil, gas, and coal money in U.S. Congress. Find out which energy companies are pumping their dirty money into politics and which politicians are receiving it.

Culture clash in business-NGO partnerships
Crane and Matten

Ten years ago last month, Jem Bendell published what turned out to be one of the most influential books yet on business-NGO partnerships called Terms for Endearment: Business, NGOs and Sustainable Development.

Personal Finance Information for Congressional Members Released Today, but it Won't Be Easy Reading
by Michael Beckel, OpenSecrets.org

Last year, scores of members of Congress reported holdings in energy giant BP and Transocean, the offshore drilling company from which BP had leased the now-sunken Deepwater Horizon. In the aftermath of the oil spill, did any of them drop their stocks or buy more?