Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Author(s): Anand Giridharadas (Author)
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 30 Jan. 2020
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0141990910
ISBN-13: 9780141990910
Book Description
*The International Bestseller* ‘Superb, hugely enjoyable … a spirited examination of the hubris and hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world’ Aditya Chakrabortty, Guardian
What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a ‘win-win’ logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can – except ways that threaten their position at the top.
But why should our gravest problems be solved by consultancies, technology companies and corporate-sponsored charities instead of public institutions and elected officials? Why should we rely on scraps from the winners? Trenchant and gripping, this is an indispensable guide and call to action for elites and citizens alike.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A splendid polemic. . . Giridharadas writes brilliantly on the parasitic philanthropy industry ― Economist
Trenchant, provocative and well-researched. . . Read it and beware — Martha Lane Fox ―
Financial Times Books of the Year
Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world — Aditya Chakrabortty ―
Guardian
Entertaining and gripping . . . For those at the helm, the philanthropic plutocrats and aspiring “change agents” who believe they are helping but are actually making things worse, it’s time for a reckoning with their role in this spiraling dilemma — Joseph Stiglitz ―
New York Times Book Review
Giridharadas isn’t afraid to speak his mind, even if it means taking down some of the most powerful people on the planet. . . He has started a movement with this scathing critique of a society that rewards monopolistic models, faux philanthropy and protects the interests of a wealthy few — Tabitha Goldstaub ―
Forbes
A fierce book. . . What gives Giridharadas’s heartfelt critique such force is that he is a heretic, someone chosen for the equivalent of the priesthood in the new religion of philanthropy who had a revelation and decided to renounce the faith — Iain Martin ―
The Times
From the Back Cover
What explains the spreading backlash against the global elite? In this revelatory investigation, Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, showing how the elite follow a ‘win-win’ logic, fighting for equality and justice any way they can – except ways that threaten their position at the top.
But why should our gravest problems be solved by consultancies, technology companies and corporate-sponsored charities instead of public institutions and elected officials? Why should
About the Author
Anand Giridharadas is the bestselling author of Winners Take All. He is a correspondent-at-large for Time and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC. He has received the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award.
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