![]() 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. Why should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? 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. 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. Full Book Name:Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World Author Name:Anand Giridharadas Book Genre:Business, Economics, Nonfiction, Politics, Sociology ISBN 9780451493248 Edition Language:English Date of Publication: PDF / EPUB File Name:WinnersTakeAll-AnandGiridharadas.pdf, WinnersTakeAll-AnandGiridharadas. ![]() 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. ![]()
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