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2024-12-18
Winners Take All 2024 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
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.
评分Readable. 书中引用的文章和著作很适合延伸阅读
评分2.5星吧,有些部分有道理,但其实更多是随便聊聊自己的罪恶感,却非要假装是本严肃书
评分Readable. 书中引用的文章和著作很适合延伸阅读
Winners Take All 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书