The New York Times bestselling 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. An essential read for understanding some of the egregious abuses of
power that dominate today's news. 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. They rebrand themselves as
saviors of the poor they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in ways that
preserve the status quo and they constantly seek to do more good but never less harm.
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? His groundbreaking investigation has already forced a great sorely needed reckoning
among the world's wealthiest and those they hover above and it 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 the world-a call to action for elites
and everyday citizens alike.
