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How the World Works

Name: How the World Works
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
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By Noam Chomsky

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How the World Works is a collection of speeches and interviews. It includes What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Reward, the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy and The Common Good.

Originally published in the US as four individual books which have collectively sold over a million copies. Simple, clear and introductory nature of book will appeal to students keen to identify with Chomsky's politics.

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How the World Works is a collection of speeches and interviews with Chomsky by David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. It includes What Uncle Sam Really Wants, about US foreign policy; The Prosperous Reward, the Restless Many, about the new global economy, food, Third World 'economic miracles' and the roots of racism; Secrets, Lies and Democracy, about the US, the CIA, religious fundamentalism, global inequality and the coming ace-catastrophe; and The Common Good, about equality, freedom, the media, the myth of Third World debt and manufacturing dissent.

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ISBN: 9780241961148

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

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Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 336

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About the Author

Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1928. He is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemonyor Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, Gaza in Crisis, Occupy, Power Systems, On Anarchism, Because We Say 80and Masters of Mankind. He has also been the subject of numerous books of biography and interview and has collaborated with journalists on books including Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine. Noam Chomsky is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT) and his forthcoming Who Rules the World will be published by Hamish Hamilton in autumn 2016.