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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Nonfiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Giridharadas, Anand. Winners take all. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 (DLC) 2017045477 (OCoLC)1004981738 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Anand Giridharadas |
ISBN: | 9780451493255 0451493257 |
OCLC Number: | 1050162983 |
Notes: | "A Borzoi book." |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | But how is the world changed? -- Win-win -- Rebel-kings in worrisome berets -- The critic and the thought leader -- Arsonists make the best firefighters -- Generosity and justice -- All that works in the modern world. |
Responsibility: | Anand Giridharadas. |
Abstract:
An insider's 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. Former New York Times columnist 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. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss; witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity. 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' He also 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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