A fascinating examination of the rapid concentration of global capital, with chapters that focus on China and Russia.
Explores how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the excess financial wealth of the world's 40 million richest people, to the detriment of everyone else and the global environment.
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.
[*]Private capital investments serve as the primary operating funds for international arms sales, private prisons, and...
