The New Power Elite: Inequality, Politics and Greed

by June Edmunds, Alan Shipman, Bryan Turner

The key questions about today's elites are easy to ask. How did a few spectacularly wealthy bankers and fund managers, whose magic money-tree crumbled to sawdust in 2008, get themselves bailed out with public funds that no health service or infrastructure commission could dream of? Why did democratically elected governments allow the '1%', and those at even more exquisite decimal places, to flee further enriched from a market meltdown that would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783087870
• ISBN13: 9781783087877
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"