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Author Phillips, Peter, 1947- author.

Title Giants : the global power elite / Peter Phillips ; introduction by William I. Robinson.

Publication Info. New York : Seven Stories Press, [2018]

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  330.92 PHI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  330.922 PHILLIPS    Lost and Paid
Edition A Seven Stories Press first edition.
Description 384 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and index.
Contents Introduction: who rules the world? -- Transnational capitalist class power elite: a seventy-year history -- The global financial giants: The central core of global capitalism -- Managers: the global power elite managers of the financial giants -- Facilitators: power elite policy planning center of the transnational capitalist class -- Protectors: power elite and the US military NATO empire, intelligence agencies, and private military companies -- Ideologists: corporate media and public relations propaganda firms -- Facing the juggernaut: democracy movements and resistance -- Postscript: a letter to the global power elite.
Summary Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett. As the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms--each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management--now represent the financial core of the world's transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management--the facilitators--of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies--and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission--and their transnational military protectors, so the reader, for the first time anywhere, can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.
Subject Wealth -- Political aspects.
Elite (Social sciences)
Capitalism -- Political aspects.
Capitalism -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00846436
Elite (Social sciences) (OCoLC)fst00908113
ISBN 9781609808716 (paperback)
1609808711 (paperback)
9781609808723 electronic book
160980872X electronic book
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