The Death of Public Knowledge?: How Free Markets Destroy the General Intellect

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
I Public News Media
	2 Does Public Media Enhance Citizen Knowledge? Sifting through the Evidence
	3 The Impact of Austerity on the Greek News Media and Public Sphere
	4 Impoverishing the Mediated Public Sphere in Aotearoa-New Zealand: The Slow Demise of Television News and Current Affairs
	5 Public-Commercial Hybridity at BBC News Online: Covering Nongovernmental Organisations in Africa
	6 The New American Media Landscape
II Public Knowledge in Britain
	7 The Autonomous School, the Strong State, the Problems of Education
	8 The Treasury View of Higher Education: Variable Human Capital Investment
	9 The Coalition Government’s Cuts to Legal Aid: Who Is Counting the Cost?
	10 Public Libraries in the Age of Austerity: The Gloves Are Off
III The Corruption of News and Information in Markets
	11 The Edge: Investment Banks and Information Flows in Public Markets
	12 Putting the Lies into Libor: The Mediation of a Financial Scandal
	13 The Press, Market Ideologies and the Irish Housing Crash
IV Private Interest Encroachments on Public Policy-Making
	14 The Corporate Takeover of Economic Discourse in Korea
	15 The Tropes of Unlearning: UK Responses to Outsourcing Fiascos
	16 Meet the New American Influence Elites: How Top Players Sway Policy and Governing in the Twenty-First Century
	17 ‘Public Knowledge’ and Health Policy
	18 Conclusion: Manifesto for Public Knowledge
Contributors
Index