Winners Take All

An insider’s investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? site

Giridharadas calls this prevailing ethos “MarketWorld,” made up of people who want “to do well and do good.” He catches the language of Aspen, Davos and the recently extant Clinton Global Initiative, which will doubtless reappear in the newly born Bloomberg initiative. nyt

Ezra Klein's 90 minute interview of author Anand Giridharadas. vox

Giridharadas' Aspen Institute keynote that he credits for getting him started in this line of reasoning.

The author's book tour has brought him into many new conversations some of which he describes in his unlikely but well received presentation at Google.