Winners Take All : The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Paperback)

from willszal

"Winners Take All" could be the most important book I've read in the past year. Written by a self-defined "insider/outsider," it is radical enough to provoke real discussion, but palatable enough to be readable by the quarries of Giridharadas. It is also superbly written, retelling a series of pe...

from rivkat

Powerful condemnation of TED-talk activism that promises salvation for the poor without requiring the rich to do anything other than open their pocketbooks. Neoliberal reformers comfort the afflicted but don't afflict the comforted; they tell the rich to give back, not to take less; to do more go...

from willszal

“Winners Take All” could be the most important book I've read in the past year. Written by a self-defined “insider/outsider,” it is radical enough to provoke real discussion, but palatable enough to be readable by the quarries of Giridharadas. It is also superbly written, retelling a series of pe...

from rivkat

Powerful condemnation of TED-talk activism that promises salvation for the poor without requiring the rich to do anything other than open their pocketbooks. Neoliberal reformers comfort the afflicted but don't afflict the comforted; they tell the rich to give back, not to take less; to do more go...

from strandbooks

About once a year I read a book that makes me uncomfortable, but also crystallizes the cloudy misgivings I've had, yet couldn't figure out how to explain. Last year that book was An American Sickness. This time it is Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas. He takes on the unscrupulous business pr...