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Aquellos maravillosos años bien podría ser un texto de ciencia ficción si no fuera porque los hechos y personajes que en él se retratan son tan reales como la crisis económica que padece España.
Con la premisa de recorrer la geografía de la corrupción española de la mano de sus protagonistas y casos más sonados, este volumen se sirve de grandes dosis de ironía y humor para contar la tragicómica historia reciente de un país vapuleado...
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A partir de un vendaval de casos de corrupción conocidos desde la segunda década del presente siglo, Chile dejó de ser considerado un ejemplo de probidad y transparencia en la región, y se vio navegando en aguas turbias. El país modelo ya no se diferenciaba de sus vecinos del barrio, pues acá —como allá— campeaba la corrupción política, empresarial y militar. De eso, precisamente, trata este libro de perfiles. Del clientelismo y el acomodo...
3) Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy
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The twenty-first century witnessed a new age of whistleblowing in the United States. Disclosures by Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and others have stoked heated public debates about the ethics of exposing institutional secrets, with roots in a longer history of state insiders revealing privileged information. Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines to consider political, legal, and cultural dimensions, Whistleblowing Nation is...
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In the 21st century, corporations have worked their way into government and, as they become increasingly more powerful, arguments about their involvement with public health have become increasingly black and white. With corporations at the center of public health and environmental issues, everything chemical or technological is good, everything natural is bad; scientists who are funded by corporations are right and those who are independent are invariably...
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