Charles Derber

Author of Corporation Nation: How Corporations Are Taking over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do about It

22 Works 446 Members 3 Reviews

About the Author

Charles Derber is the author of 20 books and Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He writes for and has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Washington Post. The Boston Globe. Time, Newsweek. Newsday, Truthout, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Works by Charles Derber

The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday Life (1979) — Author — 72 copies, 1 review

People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis (2002) 67 copies, 1 review

The Wilding of America: Money, Mayhem and the American Dream (1996) 58 copies, 1 review

Regime Change Begins at Home: Freeing America from Corporate Rule (2004) 24 copies

Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States (2013) 18 copies

Morality Wars: How Empires, the Born Again, and the Politically Correct Do Evil in the Name of Good (2008) 17 copies

Hidden Power: What You Need to Know to Save Our Democracy (Bk Currents) (2005) 16 copies

Bully Nation: How the American Establishment Creates a Bullying Society (2016) 16 copies

Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy (2010) 11 copies

Power in the Highest Degree: Professionals and the Rise of a New Mandarin Order (1990) 10 copies

Marx's Ghost: Midnight Conversations on Changing the World (2011) 9 copies

Capitalism: Should You Buy It?: An Invitation to Political Economy (2014) 7 copies

What's Left?: Radical Politics in the Postcommunist Era (1995) 7 copies

Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times (2017) 7 copies

The disinherited majority : capital questions--Piketty and beyond (2015) 4 copies

Moving Beyond Fear (Universalizing Resistance) (2018) 4 copies

Money, Murder, and the American Dream: Wilding from Wall Street to Main Street (1992) 3 copies

The surplus American : how the 1% is making us redundant (2012) 3 copies

Professionals as workers mental labor in advanced capitalism (1982) 2 copies

A Maioria Deserdada Questões capitais: Piketty e mais além (2016) 1 copy

Dying for Capitalism (Universalizing Resistance) (2023) 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1944-01-23
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Education: University of Chicago (PhD)
Yale College (AB)
Occupations: sociologist
Organizations: Boston College

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The Pursuit of Attention: Power and Ego in Everyday… by Charles Derber

Some of the material is dated--are "housewives" still a demographic group?--but the premise and transactional analyses are first-rate.

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LaurelPoe | Dec 25, 2017 |

The Wilding of America: Money, Mayhem, and the New… by Charles Derber

sloppy sociology, poor editing and moralistic. i might recommend this book to my sunday school class, but i definitely will not use it for the sociology classes i teach

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jtownsle | May 12, 2008 |

People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an… by Charles Derber

Derber examines the foundations of corporate globalization, and proposes alternatives to that model of economics. The book explains that globalization isn't the problem per se, but rather the basis for that globalization. Globalization can be made to serve the people of earth if it is based on a more democratic model. Derber offers some steps we can take as citizens to begin moving our economic system in that direction.

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derekstaff | Sep 23, 2007 |

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