Alec Ross

The Raging 2020s (eBook, ePUB)

Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the face of unprecedented global change, New York Times bestselling author Alec Ross proposes a new social contract to restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business in The Raging 2020s.

For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. The state holds the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose.

As the market consolidates, the lines between big business and the halls of Congress have become razor-thin. Private companies have become as powerful as countries. As Walter Isaacson said about Alec Ross's first book, The Industries of the Future, "The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather than frightening."

Through interviews with the world's most influential thinkers and stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models, Ross proposes a new social contract-one that resets the equilibrium between corporations, the governing, and the governed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250770936
• Artikelnr.: 60785257

Autorenporträt

Alec Ross

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Shareholder and Stakeholder Capitalism
2: The Government: Billions of People Are Governed More by Companies than
by Countries
3: The Workers
4: Taxes and the Wormhole in the Global Economy
5: Foreign Policy: Does Every Company Need Its Own State Department,
Pentagon, and CIA?
6: The Geography of Change: The Contest for Power between Closed and Open
Systems
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Rezensionen

In The Raging 2020s, Alec Ross... argues that our social contract is broken, that the roles of business, labor, government and foreign countries need to be rethought... An immensely (and unusually) readable account... Like watching a master jewel thief at work, except that this is not the movies, where the transfer is often from rich to poor. Quite the opposite. New York Times