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

The Free Market Gospel * Promoting Business Values * Advertising Free Enterprise * Free Market ‘Education’ * Economics ‘Education’ in the 1970s * Exporting Free Market Education * Pro-Business Policies as Ideology * Disseminating Pro-Business Policies * Think Tanks Down Under * Economic Advisers * People’s Capitalism * Shareholder Democracy * Fiddling with Kiddy Minds * Conclusion