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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Giridharadas, Anand

Paperback

EconomicsGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 110197267X
ISBN13: 9781101972670
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Oct 1 2019
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to change the world preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of power that dominate today's news.

Impassioned.... Entertaining reading. --The Washington Post

Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. They rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; they lavishly reward thought leaders who redefine change in ways that preserve the status quo; and they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm.

Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? His groundbreaking investigation has already forced a great, sorely needed reckoning among the world's wealthiest and those they hover above, and it points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing the world--a call to action for elites and everyday citizens alike.

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