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The New Class War de Michael Lind

The New Class War

Autor Michael Lind
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 ian 2020
Amaverickthinkerwho'sdrawntheapplauseofboththepopulistleftandrightoffersasearingindictmentofthemanagerialelite.Mainstreampoliticiansandpunditsexplaintoday'spopulistunrestasasimpledividebetween"winners"and"losers."Theyrecognizethatglobalizationhascreatedmassiveinequalities,buttheseareinevitable,theysay--andthebestwecandoisthrowasoptothe"deplorables"tokeepthemfromrevolting.Butwhatifthekeyproblemisn'tthereactionofthe"deplorables,"butthattheoverclassthathasriggedthegameinitsownfavor?InTheNewClassWar,MichaelLindexposesglobalizationforwhatitreallyis:astrategyusedbythepowerfulmanagerialelite--includingthepeoplewhorunourgovernments,businesses,andthemedia--tounderminetheworkingclass.Thisbookconfrontsuswithhardtruths:Tradeandimmigrationreallyhavedamagedmanymembersoftheworkingclass.Globalizationisnotaninexorableforcethateveryoneshouldembraceandadaptto.Instead,sincetheendoftheColdWarglobalizationhasbeenastrategythatservestheselfishinterestsofthosewhohavetheeducationandotheradvantagestomakethemostofit.Nooneisbetterpositionedtomakethiscontroversialcase.ContributingtopublicationsrangingfromJacobinandNPRtoAmericanAffairsandNationalReview,Lindhastheearofinfluentialsourcesacrosspartylines.Thisisabookforanyoneenragedbythesmugselfishnessofourelitesandtheirattemptstodisguisethemselvesasdo-gooders.
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ISBN-13: 9780593083697
ISBN-10: 0593083695
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 146 x 219 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Penguin LLC US
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Amaverickthinkerwho'sdrawntheapplauseofboththepopulistleftandrightoffersasearingindictmentofthemanagerialelite.Mainstreampoliticiansandpunditsexplaintoday'spopulistunrestasasimpledividebetween"winners"and"losers."Theyrecognizethatglobalizationhascreatedmassiveinequalities,buttheseareinevitable,theysay--andthebestwecandoisthrowasoptothe"deplorables"tokeepthemfromrevolting.Butwhatifthekeyproblemisn'tthereactionofthe"deplorables,"butthattheoverclassthathasriggedthegameinitsownfavor?InTheNewClassWar,MichaelLindexposesglobalizationforwhatitreallyis:astrategyusedbythepowerfulmanagerialelite--includingthepeoplewhorunourgovernments,businesses,andthemedia--tounderminetheworkingclass.Thisbookconfrontsuswithhardtruths:Tradeandimmigrationreallyhavedamagedmanymembersoftheworkingclass.Globalizationisnotaninexorableforcethateveryoneshouldembraceandadaptto.Instead,sincetheendoftheColdWarglobalizationhasbeenastrategythatservestheselfishinterestsofthosewhohavetheeducationandotheradvantagestomakethemostofit.Nooneisbetterpositionedtomakethiscontroversialcase.ContributingtopublicationsrangingfromJacobinandNPRtoAmericanAffairsandNationalReview,Lindhastheearofinfluentialsourcesacrosspartylines.Thisisabookforanyoneenragedbythesmugselfishnessofourelitesandtheirattemptstodisguisethemselvesasdo-gooders.

Notă biografică

Michael Lind is the author of more than a dozen books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including The Next American Nation and Land of Promise. He has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New Republic, and The National Interest. He has taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins and is currently a professor of practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.