Jennifer Jacquet is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and director of XE- Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement at New York University, as well as the author of the acclaimed Is Shame Necessary?
This brilliantly subversive and witty book lays bare the techniques
of manipulation and disinformation that keep the rich and powerful
rich and powerful. It's a handbook to show you all their tricks -
with working examples. If you want to be a vile, greedy capitalist,
this how-to book will be a great help. And if you want to identify
vile greedy capitalists it will show you how to recognise them.
It's a landmark book
*Brian Eno*
A training manual and fake guidebook for companies. . . very funny,
as satire should be, until you realise it's deadly serious
*BBC Radio 4 Start the Week*
Jacquet has found a brilliantly effective way of revealing just how
extensive and systematic corporate strategies of doubt and denial
are - by creating a Machiavellian secret guide for executives
worried about what the latest science might mean for their
business. Far more entertaining, but also far more disturbing than
a more sober historical account or polemic would be
*The Observer*
If you feel exhausted from constantly taking the high road, The
Playbook offers an enticing alternative . . . with Jacquet's dry
humor suffusing each chapter, the book's tongue-in-cheek format is
a chilling realization that the villains in The Playbook are
extraordinarily banal. The tactics that enable their misconduct
have been recycled across decades
*Scientific American*
This whip-smart and delightfully snarky exposé gives readers the
tools to recognize and refute corporate deception . . . Fashioned
as a strategy manual, Jacquet's satirical advice explains . . . how
to challenge the existence of a problem, the integrity of those who
raise it, and the need for policies to address it
*Publishers Weekly*
A savage satirical stab at corporate malfeasance draws blood. . .
Jacquet takes an original approach to indicting the ethical vacuum
that besets much of big business. . . A sharp warning to
corporations that deep pockets and armies of accomplices won't
stall a reckoning forever
*Kirkus Reviews*
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