{"product_id":"titans-of-capital-how-concentrated-wealth-threatens-humanity-paperback","title":"Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDan Kovalik\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating examination of the rapid concentration of global capital, with chapters that focus on China and Russia. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExplores how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the excess financial wealth of the world's 40 million richest people, to the detriment of everyone else and the global environment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTitans of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, Peter Phillips, a political sociologist, poses three key research questions: To what extent do the wealthy influence--or even dominate--decision making that affects all of us in society? Who are the most powerful people? And how does the accumulation of capital work? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNetworks of wealthy individuals have evolved since the COVID-19 pandemic, and \u003ci\u003eTitans of Capital \u003c\/i\u003eshows how the financial investments of transnational elites threaten human rights and the future of the planet. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePrivate capital investments\u003c\/b\u003e serve as the primary operating funds for international arms sales, private prisons, and other socially negative activities. These investments fuel the continued use of carbon-based energy leading to amplified global warming and climate change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMilitary spending\u003c\/b\u003e is a critical component of continued wealth concentration and political power in the world. Spending on arms and intelligence is a required aspect of maintaining global power and control. Dealing with Russia, China, Iran and other \"rogue\" states is a continuing agenda for agents of the world power elites.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePropaganda machines\u003c\/b\u003e in Western capitalist governments serve to protect elite wealth by promoting military conflicts to open new regions for economic investment.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillips warns that while continued concentration of global capital increases the profits enjoyed by the global economy's \"Titans,\", it also increases global inequality, starvation, and civil unrest, threatening the lives of the hundreds of millions of people living in extreme poverty. It is imperative to ask how we can reverse the concentration of Titan wealth and revitalize grassroots democracy unbridled by extreme wealth. Identifying 117 global Titans by name and exposing the networks and interests that unite them provides readers opposed to militarism and committed to economic equality with crucial tools to directly engage the power elite who endanger life on earth.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETER PHILLIPS \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Political Sociology (Emeritus) at Sonoma State University, former Director of Project Censored 1996 to 2010, and President of Media Freedom Foundation 2003 to 2017. He has been editor or co-editor of fourteen editions of \u003ci\u003eCensored\u003c\/i\u003e, was co-editor with Dennis Loo of \u003ci\u003eImpeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and the editor of two editions of the \u003ci\u003eProgressive Guide to Alternative Media and Activism\u003c\/i\u003e (1999 \u0026amp; 2004). His is author of \u003ci\u003eGiants: The Global Power Elite \u003c\/i\u003e(2018). He was a co-host of the weekly Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio with Mickey Huff from 2010 to 2017, originating from KPFA in Berkeley, CA and airing on fifty stations nationwide. He taught courses in Political Sociology, Sociology of Power, Sociological of Media, Sociology of Conspiracies and Investigative Sociology. He was winner of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award in 1997 for Best Political Book, PEN Censorship Award 2008, Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for Democratic Communications 2009, and the Pillar Human Rights Award from the National Associations of Whistleblowers 2014. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAN KOVALIK\u003c\/b\u003e served as in-house counsel for the United Steelworkers union for twenty-six years and taught international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law for twelve years. He is the author of seven books, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eNicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47374609383602,"sku":"9781644214336","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/eccdc56d268c6cec0d0fc8ae3c049580.webp?v=1777673885","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/titans-of-capital-how-concentrated-wealth-threatens-humanity-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}