Winners Take All - The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Informationen zum Autor Anand Giridharadas is the bestselling author of Winners Take All . He is a correspondent-at-large for Time and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic , and The New Yorker . He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, Harvard University's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award. Klappentext Giridharadas seeks to explain the backlash against the global elite, revealing that their efforts at philanthropy are self-serving, performative and non-committal, with change identified as the responsibility of public institutions and elected officials instead, who do not come through with this. Comparable to Owen Jones and Rutger Bregman's work. Zusammenfassung *The International Bestseller* 'Superb, hugely enjoyable ... a spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a 'win-win' logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten their position at the top. But why should our gravest problems be solved by consultancies, technology companies and corporate-sponsored charities instead of public institutions and elected officials? Why should we rely on scraps from the winners? Trenchant and gripping, this is an indispensable guide and call to action for elites and citizens alike.

Product details

• Authors: Anand Giridharadas, Giridharadas Anand
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780141990910
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199091-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Political structures: democracy, Social discrimination & inequality, Social discrimination and equal treatment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Corruption in society, Corruption in politics, government and society, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice