作者：AnandGiridharadas
出版社：Knopf
副标题：TheEliteCharadeofChangingtheWorld
出版年：2018-8-28
页数：304
定价：GBP20.69
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780451493248
内容简介
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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
作者简介
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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.
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1）美国经济发展的成果仅被少数人占有，下层民的平均寿命不如战争国家 2) thought leaders可能互相之间是非常同质化的，可能知一便知二 3)总体来讲是一个怒气冲冲的书，个人持反对意见，精英/leader不引领改变又有谁会引领呢。
这本书最大的问题并不是没有给社会问题提供解决方法，而是它试图解决一个反人性的无解问题 — 存在的世界历史都是阶级斗争历史。所谓上流阶级给底层人民提供一个有限的上升空间已经是他们能为了自保利益作出的最大的有限让步；一个思维正常的公民也不会天真到需要读作者的250页糟糕写作才能意识到目前这些所谓平等运动是多么的流于表面。因为作者作为麦肯锡alum所了解的一切都基于市场，可见他对于政治法律改革寄托的向…
讲阶级斗争下不可能出现双赢。宣称有可以让弱势群体和既得利益者双赢的方案，不是掩耳盗铃，就是装疯卖傻。商品社会遴选出来的善于”解决问题“的精英，往往是体制问题的创造者和维护者，唱唱道德高调成了他们维护现状、劫贫济富的遮羞布。我应该相信豆瓣评分的，这本书组织得也太乱了，没有主线，少有提炼论述分析，就是把对ABC的采访流水账式地堆在一起，啰啰嗦嗦，如同超长podcast，这是怎么在goodreads上拿…
Winner takers all, losers must fall 每天上班路上可以看完一个人的故事 突然觉得麦府给我留下的印记不只是工作抓要点、组织会议的能力 很大程度上影响了我的世界观 精英应当以拯救世界为己任 以及 winner takes all
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