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Plutocrats de Chrystia Freeland

Plutocrats

Autor Chrystia Freeland
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2013

Bazându-ne pe datele furnizate de Financial Times și pe recenziile de specialitate care au plasat această lucrare pe lista scurtă pentru Premiul Lionel Gelber, putem afirma că Plutocrats reprezintă o analiză riguroasă a mecanismelor care guvernează elita globală actuală. Chrystia Freeland depășește discursul politic obișnuit despre „cei 1%”, demonstrând prin date concrete că adevărata ruptură economică se produce la nivelul celor 0,1%. Cartea documentează o schimbare de paradigmă: noile averi nu mai sunt, în mare parte, rezultatul moștenirii, ci produsul unei competiții internaționale acerbe în care câștigătorii se consideră beneficiari legitimi ai propriului talent și efort.

Suntem de părere că valoarea editorială a acestui volum rezidă în accesul direct pe care autoarea l-a obținut prin interviuri originale cu plutocrații vremii. Această perspectivă „din interior” oferă o profunzime care completează perspectiva oferită de Richistan de Robert Frank. În timp ce Richistan explorează stilul de viață și profilul sociologic al milionarilor „self-made”, Plutocrats adaugă o analiză structurală a consecințelor pe care concentrarea bogăției le are asupra stabilității democratice și a mobilității sociale. Față de The 1% and the Rest of Us, lucrarea de față adoptă un ton mai degrabă analitic și istoric decât unul activist, tratând inegalitatea ca pe un fenomen sistemic complex.

În contextul operei sale, Plutocrats continuă interesul autoarei pentru marile transformări politice și economice, temă abordată anterior în Sale Of The Century. Dacă în acea lucrare Chrystia Freeland analiza tranziția Rusiei către economia de piață, aici extinde cadrul la nivel global, examinând cum piețele libere au creat o clasă transnațională de supra-bogați a căror loialitate față de statele naționale este din ce în ce mai diluată.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141043425
ISBN-10: 0141043423
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 128 x 195 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de economie politică și sociologie care doresc să înțeleagă cine sunt, de fapt, noii stăpâni ai economiei globale. Plutocrats oferă un diagnostic lucid al inegalității moderne, explicând de ce vechile modele de clasă nu mai sunt relevante. Este o lectură esențială pentru a descifra dinamica dintre puterea financiară și influența politică într-o lume hiper-conectată.

Despre autor

Chrystia Freeland este o jurnalistă și autoare cu o vastă experiență în analiza economică internațională, ocupând anterior funcția de editor digital la Thomson Reuters. Expertiza sa în transformările sistemice este demonstrată și în lucrarea sa anterioară, Sale Of The Century, unde a documentat a doua revoluție rusă și tranziția brutală către capitalism. Experiența sa în zone de conflict economic și politic îi permite să abordeze subiectul inegalității globale cu un amestec rar de rigoare academică și observație jurnalistică directă, fiind recunoscută la nivel internațional pentru capacitatea de a sintetiza tendințe macroeconomice complexe.

Notă biografică

Chrystia Freeland is the managing editor and director of consumer news at Thompson Reuters, following years of service at theFinancial Timesboth in New York and London. She was the deputy editor of Canada'sThe Globe and Mailand has reported for theFinancial Times,The Economist, andThe Washington Post. Freeland is also the author ofSale of a Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution. She lives in New York City.
blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland
@cafreeland

Descriere scurtă

The rise of the new global super-rich — who they are, how they made their fortunes, and why they're pulling away from everyone else.

Descriere

The world's ultra-wealthy aren't just getting richer — they're becoming a nation unto themselves, with more in common with each other than with the citizens of their home countries. Chrystia Freeland, an award-winning journalist (and later Canada's Deputy Prime Minister), spent years among the global plutocracy to understand how this new class was formed and what it means for the rest of us.

From Russian oligarchs to Silicon Valley disruptors, from Mexican telecom moguls to Wall Street quants, Plutocrats maps the geography of extreme wealth with intelligence and sharp reporting. It's a portrait of a class that genuinely believes it earned every penny — and a warning about what happens when the gap between the super-rich and everyone else becomes unbridgeable.

Recenzii

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize

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“Just in time – if not too late – comes this definitive examination of inequality in our time. I think it’s the bookend to the Hacker-Pierson book, Winner-Take-All Politics. These two are essential reading for anybody who wants to understand where we are.”
—Bill Moyers, Moyers &Company

“Freeland is an insightful and indefatigable reporter…  Freeland concludes by reminding us of Venice, which 700 years ago made itself a wealthy imperial power through commerce. The city fell into decline when its own plutocrats tried to cement their advantages, thereby stifling the openness that accounted for the society’s dynamism. Today, of course, Venice is sinking. Freeland’s book will make people wonder if we are, too.” --Bloomberg Businessweek

“Timely and absorbing... this is no voyeuristic glimpse into the fabulous lifestyles of the rich and famous. Freeland charts the rise of this class by examining global trends and exploring the consequences of the creation of such a money-laden elite, shifting smoothly from dense academic studies and interviews with George Soros to grappling with the success of Lady Gaga… Her findings are fleshed out with fine research, strong statistics and neat nuggets of information.” --The Guardian (UK)

“Plutocrats isn’t a book about the lifestyles of the fabulously wealthy, but rather the global trends the book’s titular class surfed to success… it’s rife with impressive analysis. In a chapter on the so-called superstar effect—“the tendency of both technological change and globalization to create winner-take-all economic tournaments”—Ms. Freeland glides from the writings of Soviet intellectuals, MIT and Princeton economists and the apostle Matthew to the careers of 18th century diva Elizabeth Billington, Lady Gaga, white-shoe lawyer David Boies, Yves St. Laurent, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and Albert Einstein… the thoroughness with which Ms. Freeland surrounds the ideas is satisfying.” --The New York Observer

“A portrait of the ultra-rich that few other journalists have had the access to capture… Unlike some critics on the left, Freeland does not vilify her super-rich protagonists – a nonpartisan approach that helps make Plutocrats harder to ignore.” --USA Today

“Rising inequality is one of the most pressing issues of our time. Chrystia Freeland's Plutocrats provides us with a glimpse of the lives of America's elites and a disquieting look at the society that produces them. This well-written and lively account is a good primer for anyone who wants to understand one extreme of America today."
    --Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Price of Inequality; University Professor, Columbia University

"Mix crisp economics, ripe history, and two pinches of salty gossip, and you have the flavor of Chrystia Freeland’s entertaining book. From the opulent Bradley Martin ball of 1897 to its modern echoes in Sun Valley and Davos, Plutocrats chronicles the habits of the workaholic overclass—its taste for British public schools, its immodest philanthropy, its fundamental rootlessness. Even as she describes this gilded tribe, Freeland advances a paradoxical warning. Open societies may allow super-achievers to pile up extraordinary riches—and to feel that they have more or less deserved them. But the more these meritocrats succeed, the more likely they are to entrench their own offspring at the top of the heap, negating the very meritocracy that afforded them their chances. Already in the United States, graduating from college is more closely linked to having wealthy parents than to grades in high school. When class matters more than going to class, Freeland’s message must be treated with the utmost seriousness."
    --Sebastian Mallaby, author of More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

"Our world increasingly revolves around global elites who not only have an oversized effect on our politics but also set the trends and furnish us with the dominant discourse. In this delightful book, Chrystia Freeland tells the story of how we got here and what distinguishes our elites from those of previous epochs. Most importantly, she explains why the elites' dominance, even when it appears benign, is a challenge to our institutions and gives us clues about how we can overcome it."
    --Daron Acemoglu, co-author of Why Nations Fail; economics professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“The world’s wealthy elite, is more wealthy, more knit together, more separate from their fellow citizens and probably more powerful than ever before. This very important  book describes their lives and more important how their lives affect all of ours. It should be read by anyone concerned with how their world is being shaped and how it will evolve.”
    --Lawrence Summers, Former U.S. Treasury Secretary; Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University

"Chrystia Freeland has written a fascinating account of perhaps the most important economic and political development of our era: the rise of a new plutocracy. She explains that today’s wealthy are different from their predecessors: more skilled and more global; and more often employees than owners, notably so in finance and high technology. By putting together stories of individuals with reading of the scholarly evidence, she gives us a clear view of what many will view as a not so brave new world."
    --Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator for the Financial Times