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The Treachery of the Elites

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

This book gives explanations for the growing gap in wealth and income and the rise of anti-democratic movements. The power of the elites today is supposedly founded on merit (education, intelligence etc.), but a closer look shows that a well-marked-out pool is just self-re-producing. The power these in-groups wield often leads to moral insensibility, made worse by a condescending attitude towards people further down the food chain. The pre-dominance of the model of the nation-state, with its centralism and top-down structure, is one of the roots of this problem, as is the lack of comparisons and value judgements; examples from transport and urbanism show that they are possible. The deplorable situation is made worse by the “anti-“social-media scuppering open and productive discussions.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-631-85845-5 / 978-3631858455 / 9783631858455

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.2021

Seiten: 220

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Georg Schmid
Reihe herausgegeben von Jan Hartman

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