![]() ![]() ![]() The book provides its critique through a series of stories of different people that pass through the MarketWorld culture and community in its various forms, including: ![]() MarketWorld consists of a culture and ideology that pervades consulting, investing and philanthropy. The book's critique centers on the self-serving and political nature of the dominant change-the-world framework which he refers to as "MarketWorld." MarketWorld is the label that the book creates for the international network and culture of power brokers and wealthy do-gooders who are wedded to the idea of making the world a better place through market-based solutions and elite philanthropy. The neo-liberal framework that Giridharadas critiques asserts that market forces and efficient, business-type organizational and economic models are the most powerful and effective way to make the world a better place. Needless to say, Giridharadas strongly disagrees. In Winners Take All: the Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Giridharadas provides an incisive critique of the dominant market-based "change-the-world" framework permeating public discourse today. ![]()
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