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First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory continues to matter very much today. What The Power Elite informed readers of in 1956 was how much the organization of power in America had changed during their lifetimes, and Alan Wolfe's astute afterword to this new edition brings us up to date, illustrating how much more has changed since then. Wolfe sorts out what is helpful in Mills' book and which of his predictions have not come to bear, laying out the radical changes in American capitalism, from intense global competition and the collapse of communism to rapid technological transformations and ever changing consumer tastes. The Power Elite has stimulated generations of readers to think about the kind of society they have and the kind of society they might want, and deserves to be read by every new generation.… (mehr)
In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
"Meanwhile the bankers whine to their friends in the Press and threatening any government which even thinks of introducing a regulation or two, and yet the truth is that there is already NO effective regulation or oversight of banks. What there is, are gnat-like inconveniences which buzz around the places where the huge, shrouded machinery protrudes into the world of people and their governments for the purposes of being physically housed somewhere and for getting their hands on deposits and bail outs.
Those protrusions of the banking world are like the brass buttons on a policeman's uniform. They are just the tips of a massive machine which exists elsewhere and whose bidding the policeman does. The truth is most of the money in the world is not under any national jurisdiction at all. It is not physically in any country. It is not subject to any nation's laws nor those of any international body. Democracy has virtually no control over it at all. The banks print and control their own debt backed currency (that is what securities and derivatives amount to). And when, as has happend, the value of the bank's currency implodes, they use our politicians to loot our currency to replace theirs. And then bill us the interest on the money we have loaned or given them.
There are no regulations which oversee money or the banks once money is on the move. And keeping money on the move is what modern banking is about. It is an unregulated, extra territorial, global power for and by a global elite." David Malone
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"The powers of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they live, yet even in these rounds of job, family, and neighborhood they often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor govern." -- chapter one, The Higher Circles
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"The men of higher circles are not representative men; their high position is not a result of moral virtue; their fabulous success is not firmly connected with meritorious ability. Those who sit in the seats of the high and the mighty are selected and formed by the means of power, the sources of wealth, the mechanics of celebrity, which prevail in their society. They are not men selected and formed by a civil service that is linked with the world of knowledge and sensibility. They are not men shaped by nationally responsible parties that debate openly and clearly the issues this nation now so unintelligently confronts. They are not men held in responsible check a plurality of voluntary associations which connect debating publics with the pinnacles of decision. Commanders of power unequaled in human history, they have succeeded within the American system of organized irresponsibility." -- Chapter fifteen, The Higher Immorality
First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory continues to matter very much today. What The Power Elite informed readers of in 1956 was how much the organization of power in America had changed during their lifetimes, and Alan Wolfe's astute afterword to this new edition brings us up to date, illustrating how much more has changed since then. Wolfe sorts out what is helpful in Mills' book and which of his predictions have not come to bear, laying out the radical changes in American capitalism, from intense global competition and the collapse of communism to rapid technological transformations and ever changing consumer tastes. The Power Elite has stimulated generations of readers to think about the kind of society they have and the kind of society they might want, and deserves to be read by every new generation.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT6CXwqzucY
In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
A Watson Institute video on the global trend toward Austerity budgets featuring Mark Blyth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmsjGys-VqA
This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
"Meanwhile the bankers whine to their friends in the Press and threatening any government which even thinks of introducing a regulation or two, and yet the truth is that there is already NO effective regulation or oversight of banks. What there is, are gnat-like inconveniences which buzz around the places where the huge, shrouded machinery protrudes into the world of people and their governments for the purposes of being physically housed somewhere and for getting their hands on deposits and bail outs.
Those protrusions of the banking world are like the brass buttons on a policeman's uniform. They are just the tips of a massive machine which exists elsewhere and whose bidding the policeman does. The truth is most of the money in the world is not under any national jurisdiction at all. It is not physically in any country. It is not subject to any nation's laws nor those of any international body. Democracy has virtually no control over it at all. The banks print and control their own debt backed currency (that is what securities and derivatives amount to). And when, as has happend, the value of the bank's currency implodes, they use our politicians to loot our currency to replace theirs. And then bill us the interest on the money we have loaned or given them.
There are no regulations which oversee money or the banks once money is on the move. And keeping money on the move is what modern banking is about. It is an unregulated, extra territorial, global power for and by a global elite." David Malone
http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2011/03/regulatory-arbitrage-what-bankers-don...