Shadow elite : how the world's new power brokers undermine democracy, government, and the free market / Janine R. Wedel.
Imprint
New York : Basic Books, c2009.
Copies
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CCQ - Lusail Female Library
JF1525.C66
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CCQ - Lusail Male Library
JF1525.C66
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Description
xv, 283 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-267) and index.
Contents
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.
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