11 Top business books like Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

By: Anand Giridharadas

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p…

"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

If you liked the business plot in Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

By: Jane Mayer

4.16

Format: 76 pages, ebook

Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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2. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology

3. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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4. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

By: David Graeber

4.03

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
  • business
  • sociology
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"

-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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5. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
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  • audiobook
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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6. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more

Similar categories in Jake Bittle's The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration book and Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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8. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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9. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

By: Brendan Ballou

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

10. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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11. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

By: Anand Giridharadas

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p… read more

Similar categories in Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World book and Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • society
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Cover of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato

12. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies

By: Mariana Mazzucato

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more

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  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • economics
  • sociology
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  • audiobook
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13. The Shining Path: Love, Madness, and Revolution in the Andes

By: Orin Starn

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of gl… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

By: Fredrik deBoer

3.84

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

By: Rebecca Henderson

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A renowned Harvard professor debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new intellectual foundation and a … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
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  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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16. Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

By: Yanis Varoufakis

3.81

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestsellin… read more

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"BEWARE THE POWER TO CREATE MONEY FOR IT DOES TO ETHICS THAT WHICH WATER DOES TO SALT"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

"The dirtier the industry, the richer and more despised, the more it's captains have been able to tap into the rivers of debt derived money to purchase influence and to blunt opposition."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

"All capitalism proved itself capable of after 2020 — just as after 2008 — was a fascinating reversal of natural selection: the larger an institution's failure and the steeper it's financial losses, t…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

"What does it mean to be a proletarian, really? [...] It means you are a cog in a process of production that relies on what you do and think, while excluding you from being anything but its product. I…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present

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17. The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

By: Robert B. Reich

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good , comes an urgent analysis of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"The system is created by people. The question is, 'Which people?' The central issue is not more or less government. It’s 'Who is government for?'. In other words, it’s all a question of power — who h…"

-Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

"The most important political competition over the next decades will not be between the right and left or between Republicans and Democrats. It will be between a majority of Americans who have been lo…"

-Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

"Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market, without examining changes in the legal and political institutions that define the market…"

-Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

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18. Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

By: Jacqueline Novogratz

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Jacqueline Novogratz, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater and founder and CEO … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva

19. Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

By: Edgar Villanueva

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in phi… read more

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  • politics
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"Grieving requires softening your self-protective defense mechanisms enough to feel: getting beyond the denial, numbness, righteousness, apathy, and other obstacles we have put In place to avoid the d…"

-Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

"Some may say it’s tiresome to dwell on the hurt- after all there’s a relentless (if artificial) drive to Stay Positive! in America, to focus only on solutions—yet an essential step in the process of …"

-Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

"Colonial, white supremacist organizational practices seem inevitable because they were so universally adopted over the next centuries, and they still govern the great majority of our institutions, bu…"

-Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

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20. Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better

By: Rob Reich

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone by Astra Taylor

21. Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone

By: Astra Taylor

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist? Astra … read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • audiobook
"What kind of ancestors do we want to be? With every action or inaction, we help decide how the future will unfold. What principles and commitments do we want to adopt for a democracy that doesn't yet…"

-Astra Taylor, Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone

"When I look at all the forces aligned to roll back and block democratic change--the concentration of wealth, the structures of minority rule, the market imperative of endless growth, the seemingly ir…"

-Astra Taylor, Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone

18 Best audiobook books like Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Transform Your Habits

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

4.03

Transform Your Habits

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Transform Your Habits

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Jake Bittle

4.28

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

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Oliver Franklin-Wallis

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