History

Life Inc. covers over 400 years of human history in just a couple of hundred pages. The chapters often raise as many questions and inquiries as they answer: people really used other kinds of money? The chartered monopoly was created to what? How do we know this? These are the principle resources I used to learn the history of corporatism, the people who thought it would lead to a better way of life, and the process through which it reached diminishing returns.

Renaissance

Afterthoughts on Material Civilization and Capitalism

Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce

Colonial Era

Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights

Industrial Age

Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village

Public Relations

PR!: A Social History of Spin‘

related media:
Media Squat Radio, August 17th: Stuart Ewen author of PR!

Adam Curtis: amazing documentarian

Century of the Self

The Trap