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.
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
發表於2024-06-26
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圖書標籤: 社會學 美國 不平等研究 社科 社會經濟學 英文原版 非虛構 nonfiction
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
評分do well的人能否 do good? 這本不錯,相當犀利。還把steven pinker之流貶瞭一通
評分Readable. 書中引用的文章和著作很適閤延伸閱讀
評分well....
評分對於一個從未以改變世界為己任的、隻在腦海很邊緣的地方覺得慈善傢和慈善型企業大概是善莫大焉的人來說,確實是個很開闊眼界的思維實驗。但當作者專闢一章質疑以演講和networking為生的“思想領袖”的獨立性、封底個人簡介卻赫然標明接受有償演講邀約時,似乎整本書的觀點在尖銳之餘,更多的是諷刺…
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