📗 Libro en inglés THE ESTABLISHMENT: AND HOW THEY GET AWAY WITH IT

ALLEN LANE THE PENGUIN PRESS - 9781846147197

Política Política internacional

Sinopsis de THE ESTABLISHMENT: AND HOW THEY GET AWAY WITH IT

The question of who really rules us, and what they are up to, matters more than ever. Today, at the heart of our democracy, lurks an all-powerful network of people. They are unaccountable and unchallenged. They are making huge profits at our expense. They are the Establishment. Lifting the lid on this shadowy and labyrinthine system that dominates our lives, Owen Jones sets out on a journey into the depths of the Establishment. From off-the-record chats in the lobbies and back streets of Westminster, to posh lunches with bankers and boardroom meetings in towering corporate headquarters, he explores the centres of Establishment power and encounters some of its leading figures. In doing so, he reveals how today''s Establishment is bound together by a common mentality, a set of ideas that helps it rationalise and justify its behaviour, from the scandal of MPs expenses, to private companies'' scrounging off the state, to the cosy connections between accountancy firms and tax authorities. He shows too how, with no meaningful opposition in its path, the Establishment is amassing wealth and power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. Going through the revolving doors that link these worlds, and exposing the vested interests that bind them together, Jones shows how, in claiming to work on our behalf, the people at the top are doing precisely the opposite. In fact, they represent the biggest threat to our democracy today - and it is time they were challenged. It is, he urges, up to us to do so.

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Editorial: Allen Lane the Penguin Press

ISBN: 9781846147197

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 368
Tiempo de lectura:
7h 36m

Encuadernación: Tapa dura

Fecha de lanzamiento: 09/10/2014

Año de edición: 2014

Alto: 24.0 cm

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