Jerry Mander

Jerry Irwin Mander is an American activist and author. He is best known for his 1978 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. Mander worked in advertising for 15 years, including five as partner and president of Freeman, Mander & Gossage.

About Jerry Mander in brief

Summary Jerry ManderJerry Irwin Mander is an American activist and author. He is best known for his 1978 book, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. Mander worked in advertising for 15 years, including five as partner and president of Freeman, Mander & Gossage in San Francisco. In 1971 he founded the first non-profit advertising agency in the United States, Public Interest Communications. He served as the executive director of the International Forum on Globalization, which he founded in 1994, until 2009.

In 2007 Jerry Mander appeared in the full-length documentary film, What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire. His most recent book,The Capitalism Papers argues against capitalism as a sustainable and viable system on which to base an economy. In an interview with Nancho. net’s W. David Kubiak, he describes how he got into advertising and how he turned it to the service of social causes.