Giants : the global power elite

Phillips, Peter, 1947- author.

Book 2018

Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett. As the number of men with as much wealth as half the...

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Capitalism Political aspects

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Wealth Political aspects

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ISBN:

9781609808716
1609808711

Edition:

A Seven Stories Press first edition

Description:

384 pages ; 21 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and index

Contents:

Introduction: who rules the world?
Transnational capitalist class power elite: a seventy-year history
The global financial giants: The central core of global capitalism
Managers: the global power elite managers of the financial giants
Facilitators: power elite policy planning center of the transnational capitalist class
Protectors: power elite and the US military NATO empire, intelligence agencies, and private military companies
Ideologists: corporate media and public relations propaganda firms
Facing the juggernaut: democracy movements and resistance
Postscript: a letter to the global power elite

LCCN:

2018017493

Control Number:

2745423

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