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Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity
A fascinating examination of the rapid concentration of global capital, with chapters that focus on China and Russia. In Titans of Capital, Peter Phillips, a political sociologist, poses three key research questions: To what extent do the wealthy influence—or even dominate—decision making that affects all of us in society? Who are the most powerful people? And how does the accumulation of capital work? Networks of wealthy individuals have evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic, and Titans of Capital shows how the financial investments of transnational elites threaten human rights and the future of the planet. Phillips warns that while continued concentration of global capital increases the profits enjoyed by the global economy's 'Titans,', it also increases global inequality, starvation, and civil unrest, threatening the lives of the hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty. It is imperative to ask how we can reverse the concentration of Titan wealth and revitalize grassroots democracy unbridled by extreme wealth. Identifying 117 global Titans by name and exposing the networks and interests that unite them provides listeners opposed to militarism and committed to economic equality with crucial tools to directly engage the power elite who endanger life on earth.
Peter Phillips (Author), David Marantz (Narrator)
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Siempre nos preguntamos: ¿Quién maneja los hilos del mundo? Las dimensiones de la concentración de la riqueza en el mundo son apabullantes... Y temibles. Megacapitalistas es la respuesta detalladísima a esa pregunta. ¿Quiénes son exactamente los amos de la humanidad? Este libro de investigación pone cifras a la actual y pasmosa concentración de riqueza privada y poder corporativo, explica cuáles son sus instituciones y su estructura integrada y, además, denuncia la amenaza que esta élite supone para la existencia humana y civilizada. En este trabajo de investigación, Peter Phillips nos cuenta qué instituciones financieras y qué persones específicas son esos ''gigantes'', cuánto dinero manejan, cuáles son sus interconexiones, cómo organizan incluso la manera de pensar de la gente, de forma que no se le ocurra a nadie tratar de desafiar su poder. Phillips examina la riqueza y el poder de gente tan conocida como Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet... Pero también la de otros megarricos y de las instituciones con las que tratan de apoderarse del mundo y aniquilar todo intento de reducir su influencia. Sabremos cuánto dinero maneja Black Rock, un fondo buitre de inversión que ha hecho estragos en España y en muchos países del mundo. Y conoceremos datos de otros como el Vanguard Group, JP Morgan Chase, Allianz/PIMCO, el banco UBS, el Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. En cada uno de los capítulos de este ensayo brillante y revelador, Peter Phillips los identifica por su nombre, cuantifica su fortuna, muestra cómo se interconectan sus inversiones. Y explica en qué organizaciones elitistas se encuentran para establecer las reglas que someterán a los países y las empresas, a los ciudadanos de todo el mundo, que se han convertido en piezas impotentes de un ajedrez que ellos mueven a su antojo. - Peter Phillips es catedrático de Sociología política en la Sonoma State University desde 1994. De 199 a 2010 dirigió el Proyecto Censurado, y ha presidido la Fundación por la Libertad de los Medios de 2003 a 2017. Como editor o coeditor ha publicado el anuario sobre libertad de expresión Censored (catorce ediciones); y el libro Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney (2006). Enseña sociología política, sociología del poder, de los medios y de las conspiraciones. Ha obtenido numerosos premios entre los que destacan el premio al mejor libro político concedido por la Firecracker Alternative, y el premio al mejor trabajo contra la censura del PEN club (2008). Media, Sociology of Conspiracies, and Investigative Sociology. He was winner of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Best Political Book in 1997, the PEN Censorship Award in 2008, the Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for Democratic Communications in 2009, and the Pillar Human Rights Award from the National Association of Whistleblowers in 2014.
Peter Phillips (Author), Arturo López, Frank Capdet (Narrator)
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Giants: The Global Power Elite
A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future. Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, and Warren Buffett. As the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017, according to Oxfam International, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms-each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management-now represent the financial core of the world's transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management-the facilitators-of world capitalism, the firewall protecting the capital investment, growth, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires, their 17 global financial companies-and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission-and their transnational military protectors, so the reader, for the first time anywhere, can identify who constitutes this network of influence, where the wealth is concentrated, how it suppresses social movements, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change.
Peter Phillips (Author), Kristoffer Tabori (Narrator)
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