Superclass : the global power elite and the world they are making /

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,...

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Main Author: Rothkopf, David J. (David Jochanan), 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.