Anand Giridharadas writes the Admit One column for the New York Times's arts pages and the Currents column for its global edition. He is the author of India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of A Nation's Remaking. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
发表于2025-01-21
Winners Take All 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 社会学 美国 不平等研究 社科 社会经济学 英文原版 非虚构 nonfiction
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 th
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评分作者说通过科技或商业手段这种所谓的双赢策略是无法真正改变阶级不平等的,富人/精英做这一切也不是为了解决问题而是忽略真正的问题从而维护他们的阶级和财富。通过勾画出美好未来变相推动自己的商业发展,以及时代前进,而在这前进浪潮中,总会有很多普通人被落下,他们的困境无人关心,所以这也是民粹主义抬头的一个原因吗?
评分Pithy analysis eluding the wrong of the capital society, all the hypocrisy and wishful thinking. The solution to the social and economic wrong could be more complex than simply going back to politics as the author suggested. Nonetheless an inspiring read, worth every idealist out there who wishes to do good by doing well
评分对于一个从未以改变世界为己任的、只在脑海很边缘的地方觉得慈善家和慈善型企业大概是善莫大焉的人来说,确实是个很开阔眼界的思维实验。但当作者专辟一章质疑以演讲和networking为生的“思想领袖”的独立性、封底个人简介却赫然标明接受有偿演讲邀约时,似乎整本书的观点在尖锐之余,更多的是讽刺…
评分in reality their tricks and strategies enable them to keep things as they are. Helped by thought leaders promoting a rhetoric of change, those with power do everything they can to hold on to it while convincing others – and themselves – that they are improving life for all.
Winners Take All 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书