excerpts from Alex Carey's "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty"
Alexander Edward Carey (1 December 1922 – 30 November 1987) was an Australian social psychologist. Lecturer in psychology at the University of New South Wales. The main subjects of his lectures and research were industrial psychology, industrial relations, and the psychology of nationalism and propaganda. He was one of the founding members of the Australian Humanist Society in 1960.
This compelling book examines the twentieth-century history of corporate propaganda as practiced by U.S. businesses and its export to and adoption by other western democracies, chiefly the United Kingdom and Australia. A volume in the series The History of Communication, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone