Suchergebnisse

1. Society and Power -- 2. The reshaping of man and the birth of totalitarian power -- 3. The conditions enabling individual choice and the limitation of power -- 4. Pareto and Machiavellianism: the problem and the errors -- 5. Voluntary cooperation and unlimited democracy.

Contenido -- Lista de cuadros y gráficos -- Agradecimientos -- Introducción -- Capítulo I: El municipio de Olintepeque en la actualidad -- Capítulo II: La teoría de las élites y las relaciones sociales de dominación -- Capítulo III: El proyecto de "modernización" del Estado nacional y las relaciones sociales de dominación ladino-indígenas -- Capítulo IV: La élite indígena en Olintepeque -- Capítulo V: La élite ladina en Olintepeque -- Capítulo VI:La élite político-económica progresista indígena frente al dominio institucional político-militar ladino después de la Revolución Liberal -- Capítulo VII: Fortalecimiento, ruptura y transformación del consenso de las élites ladino-indígena comerciante en Olintepeque -- Capítulo VIII: El "dominio histórico" ladino en Olintepeque -- Conclusiones generales -- Listado de entrevistas -- Catálogo de Archivo -- Anexos -- Bibliografía

Elites have always ruled - wielding inordinate power and wealth, taking decisions that shape life for the rest. In good times the '1%' can hide their privilege, or use growing social mobility and economic prosperity as a justification. When times get tougher there's a backlash. So the first years of the twenty-first century - a time of financial crashes, oligarchy and corruption in the West; persistent poverty in the south; and rising inequality everywhere - have brought elites and 'establishments' under unprecedented fire. Yet those swept to power by this discontent are themselves a part of the elite, attacking from within and extending rather than ending its agenda. The Trump plutocracy, the entrenchment of Chinese 'communist' rule and the separatist movements now splitting Europe fit a recurrent historical pattern. 'Greedy Elites' shows how major political and social change is typically driven by renegade elite fractions, who co-opt or sideline elites' traditional enemies. Many recent analyses have chronicled elites and their excesses, bemused at their post-crisis resilience. This is the first book to combine the politics, economics, sociology and history of elite rule to present a compact, comprehensive account of who's at the top, and why we let them get there.