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    Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
    Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
    Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
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    Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

    Written by David Rothkopf

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    Each of them is one in a million. They number 6,000 on a planet of 6 billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organizations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time.

    Today's superclass has achieved unprecedented levels of wealth and power. They have globalized more rapidly than any other group. But do they have more in common with one another than with their own countrymen, as nationalist critics have argued? They control globalization more than anyone else. But has their influence fed the growing economic and social inequity that divides the world? What happens behind closed-door meetings in Davos or aboard corporate jets at 41,000 feet? Conspiracy or collaboration? Deal-making or idle self-indulgence? What does the rise of Asia and Latin America mean for the conventional wisdom that shapes our destinies? Who sets the rules for a group that operates beyond national laws?

    Drawn from scores of exclusive interviews and extensive original reporting, Superclass answers all of these questions and more. It draws back the curtain on a privileged society that most of us know little about, even though it profoundly affects our everyday lives. It is the first in-depth examination of the connections between the global communities of leaders who are at the helm of every major enterprise on the planet and control its greatest wealth. And it is an unprecedented examination of the trends within the superclass, which are likely to alter our politics, our institutions, and the shape of the world in which we live.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 14, 2008
    ISBN9781400176021
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    David Rothkopf

    David J. Rothkopf is CEO and Editor of the FP Group, where he oversees all editorial, publishing, event, and other operations of the company, publishers of Foreign Policy Magazine. He is also the President and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, an international advisory company specializing in global political risk, energy, resource, technology, and emerging markets issues based in Washington, DC. He is the author of numerous internationally acclaimed books, including The Great Questions of Tomorrow, Power, Inc., Superclass, and Running the World. He writes a weekly column for Foreign Policy, a regular column for CNN, and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, CNN, Newsweek, Time, and many others.

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    • 4/5
      Even though the book is a decade old the analysis perfectly holds up (and even is validated) today. Many things that are mentioned resonate with the current geopolitical reality (just check the final paragraphs of chapters 8 & 9). I think an updated version, ten years from now, will corroborate some of the author's hypothesis while others will have to deal with the repercussions and consequences of current issues regarding isolationism, nativism and inequality.
    • 3/5
      " The most powerful mind altering drug in existance is oil " ( this guy knows what he's talking about ) Hard to read ( literally, the print was too close together )
    • 3/5
      David Rothkopf thinks the world is run by a small group of rich, highly influential and increasingly interconnected men, a so called Superclass. One has not to share this conviction to find parts of this book interesting. Rothkopf‘s strength is the atmospheric description of events in Davos and various similar retreats of his Superclass. He writes also convincingly about the powers of Agenda Setting for this Superclass. His is an interesting perspective on the generation and distribution of global ideas. Unfortunately this runs a bit thin on 360 pages. Somewhere in this book there is a great 30 page piece on the Homo Davos. Still, a comprehensive analysis of the forces that start to shape the 21st century is not to be found in these pages.