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.
