Winners Take All

书名：Winners Take AllTheEliteCharadeofChangingtheWorld
作者：AnandGiridharadas
译者：
ISBN：9780451493248
出版社：Knopf
出版时间：2018-8-28
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：304
豆瓣评分： 7.4

书籍简介：

An insider's groundbreaking 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. Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can–except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways; and how they constantly seek to do more good, but never less harm. We hear the limousine confessions of a celebrated foundation boss; witness an American president hem and haw about his plutocratic benefactors; and attend a cruise-ship conference where entrepreneurs celebrate their own self-interested magnanimity. Giridharadas asks hard questions: Why, for example, should our gravest problems be solved by the unelected upper crust instead of the public institutions it erodes by lobbying and dodging taxes? He also points toward an answer: Rather than rely on scraps from the winners, we must take on the grueling democratic work of building more robust, egalitarian institutions and truly changing th

作者简介：

Anand Giridharadas writes the Admit One column for the New York Times's arts pages and the Currents column for its global edition. He is the author of India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of A Nation's Remaking. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

书友短评：

@ Chill Power in reality their tricks and strategies enable them to keep things as they are. Helped by thought leaders promoting a rhetoric of change, those with power do everything they can to hold on to it while convincing others – and themselves – that they are improving life for all. @ Я ‘doing the market-friendly thing instead of the idealistic thing; elevating what the people supposedly needed economically over what they wanted politically; believing that the right, data-driven, technocratic answers speak for themselves…’ @ 归林 作者没有基本的社科素养，整个书的逻辑非常成问题。好像大一新生忽然 愤世嫉俗时一堆无效的呐喊。但凡读了一两页马克思都不至于写出这种肤浅之作。这本书写了一些底层和他所说的entrepreneur会认同的漂亮话。这本书体现出一种天真，接近于单纯的情绪宣泄。但遗憾的是，这就是人们最爱看的bestsellers。未经沉思的爽文是不值得看的，甚至这个人就来自于他自己所批评的那个与底层对立的阶层，这爽在哪儿了？看完骂一句脏话然后继续在工地搬砖，继续开低于最低工资水平的uber吗？wiki中作者被描述成，“他童年拜访了他的印度大家庭，导致他产生了对那个国家的兴趣”，这是多需要和自己的印度族裔身份分离呢？哇哦，一个从头到尾的精英忽然批判起了精英的毛病呢！ @ 归林 1）美国经济发展的成果仅被少数人占有，下层民的平均寿命不如战争国家 2) thought leaders可能互相之间是非常同质化的，可能知一便知二 3)总体来讲是一个怒气冲冲的书，个人持反对意见，精英/leader不引领改变又有谁会引领呢。 @ Я 读了两遍，优缺点明显的一本书，不过至少thought-provoking。很喜欢HKS对Giridharadas的采访，Q&A中有几个问题相当一针见血，而AG并没有很好地正面回答 @ 晓颖 断断续续读了一个多月，前天终于读完了，先标记一下。

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