is a professional engineer who researches and teaches environmental politics and is professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is an award-winning author of several successful books including Free Market Missionaries, Suiting Themselves, Global Spin, Power Play and Selling the Work Ethic.

"Sharon Beder has taken the taboo subjects of propaganda and censorship in free societies and exposed their insidious threat."--John Pilger

"Beder's analysis is comprehensive, steely and clinical. She lifts the lid on an elaborate tapestry of lies, deceit, intimidation and destruction."--Harold Pinter

"[Beder is] the scourge of the world's environment-damaging corporates and public relations bosses."--Evening Post, New Zealand

"[Beder] is the master of the sound bite and is a communications rottweiler... [She] exposes conspiracies and scandals of the highest dimensions."--Michael Pollak and Margaret MacNabb, Hale & Iremonger

List of Boxes, Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; A Corporate Class; National Influence; International Coercion; Washington Consensus Down Under; From Public Service to Private Profit; The Trade Agenda; Trade in Services; Coercing Trade Agreements; Deregulating Investment; Globalization Versus Democracy; Conclusion: The Triumph of Corporate Rights; Bibliography