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Shadow elite : how the world's new power brokers undermine democracy, government, and the free market / Janine R. Wedel.

Wedel, Janine R., 1957-
2009
320.9 W391s 2009
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Title
Shadow elite : how the world's new power brokers undermine democracy, government, and the free market / Janine R. Wedel.
Author
Wedel, Janine R., 1957-
ISBN
9780465091065 (alk. paper)
0465091067 (alk. paper)
9780465022014 (pbk.)
0465022014 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Basic Books, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xv, 283 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
320.9 W391s 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)191926042
(OCoLC)191926042
Summary
An award-winning public policy expert and author of Collision and Collusion explains how an elite group of power-wielding agenda promoters are erasing the boundaries between government, private and non-profit organizations for their own benefit and have been behind headline-making scandals.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-267) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Confidence men and their flex lives
When privatization meets truthiness
Privatizing power in the post-Cold War East
U.S. government, Inc.
The privatizers
The commandeers
Accountability in the age of truthiness.
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