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Title: Shadow Elite
Subtitle: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government and the Free Market
Author: Janine Wedel
Narrator: Janine Wedel
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-26-10
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 29 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics
Publisher's Summary:
It can feel like were swimming in a sea of corruption. 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. 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.
In this groundbreaking book, Wedel charts how this shadow elite, loyal only to their own, challenge both government rules of accountability and business codes of competition to accomplish their own goals. 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.
Profoundly original, Shadow Elite gives us the tools we need to recognize these powerful yet elusive players and comprehend the new system. Nothing less than our ability for self-government and our freedom are at stake.