- Elite (Social sciences), Plutocracy, Social change, Social conditions
The New York Times bestselling, 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.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and grave.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Anand Giridharadas
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451493255
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