Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
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Nothing less than our ability for self-government and our freedom are at stake. Profoundly original, Shadow Elite gives us the tools we need to recognize these powerful yet elusive players and comprehend the new system. According to award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine Wedel, these are the powerful “shadow elite,” the main players in a vexing new system of power and influence. It’s unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people seem to reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. In this groundbreaking book, Wedel charts how this shadow elite, loyal only to their own, challenge both governments’ rules of accountability and business codes of competition to accomplish their own goals. It can feel like we’re swimming in a sea of corruption. From the Harvard economists who helped privatize post-Soviet Russia and the neoconservatives who have helped privatize American foreign policy (culminating with the debacle that is Iraq) to the many private players who daily make public decisions without public input, these manipulators both grace the front pages and operate behind the scenes. Wherever they maneuver, they flout once-sacrosanct boundaries between state and private.
Product Info
- Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9780465091065
- EAN List
- EANListElement: 9780465091065
- ISBN
- 0465091067
- Label
- Basic Books
- Manufacturer
- Basic Books
- Number Of Items
- 1
- Number Of Pages
- 304
- Product Group
- Book
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_BOOK
- Publication Date
- 2009-12-01
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- SKU
- ING0465091067
- Studio
- Basic Books
- Title
- Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
- ASIN
- 0465091067
- Sales Rank
- 543829
