Superclass : the global power elite and the world they are making / David Rothkopf.
Rothkopf, David J. (David Jochanan), 1955-
2008
HM1263 .R68 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Superclass : the global power elite and the world they are making / David Rothkopf.
Author Rothkopf, David J. (David Jochanan), 1955-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780374272104 (alk. paper)
0374272107 (alk. paper)
Publication Details New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Language English
Description xxii, 376 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HM1263 .R68 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.5/209045
Summary They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time. Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? Has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws? Drawn from exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, this book draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our lives.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-355) and index.
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Introduction: The power élite on the promenade
Each one is one in a million : meet the superclass
Ceteris non paribus : inequality, backlash, and the New Order
Lessons of history : the rise and fall of élites
The multinational moment : when finance and business became the center of it all
Globalists vs. nationalists : political fault line for a new century
The Age of Asymmetry : decline of the titans and the rise of shadow warriors
The information superclass : the power of ideas
How to become a member of the superclass : myth, reality, and the psychopathology of success
The future of the superclass
and what it may mean for the rest of us.

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