Winners Take All

ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. He is an editor-at-large for TIME and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times from 2005 to 2016. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, and a former McKinsey analyst. He has spoken on the main stage of TED. Anand's writing has been honored by the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Poynter Fellowship at Yale, the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, Harvard University's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

A fierce book. . . What gives Giridharadas's heartfelt critique such force is that he is a heretic, someone chosen for the equivalent of the priesthood in the new religion of philanthropy who had a revelation and decided to renounce the faith
Trenchant, provocative and well-researched. . . Read it and beware
Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world
Entertaining and gripping . . . For those at the helm, the philanthropic plutocrats and aspiring "change agents" who believe they are helping but are actually making things worse, it's time for a reckoning with their role in this spiraling dilemma
Giridharadas isn't afraid to speak his mind, even if it means taking down some of the most powerful people on the planet. . . He has started a movement with this scathing critique of a society that rewards monopolistic models, faux philanthropy and protects the interests of a wealthy few

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Former McKinsey consultant and New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas asks a question that Silicon Valley and Davos would rather you didn't: what if the very people who claim to be solving the world's problems are actually making them worse?

In Winners Take All, Giridharadas reveals how the global elite — tech billionaires, hedge fund managers, and corporate philanthropists — have rebranded themselves as saviours while ensuring that no real change threatens their position at the top. Through vivid portraits and sharp analysis, he exposes the 'win-win' illusion: the idea that the powerful can simultaneously do well and do good, without ever giving anything up.

A New York Times bestseller and one of the most provocative books about inequality of the last decade.