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	Bulk Discounts Buy... Save... 25 - 99 40% 100 - 249 45% 250 - 499 47% 500 - 999 50% 1000 or more 55% List Price: $27.50 Our Price: $16.50 for 25 - 99 copies You save $11.00! Published: September 2009 ISBN: 0465091067, 9780465091065 Format Hardcover Publisher: Basic Books Carton Quantity: 24 (Minimum order):  25 Availability:: Usually Ships in 24 to 72 Hours Product Code: 9780465091065 Buy It New: Bulk savings applied automatically at checkout. Orders typically ship in 1 to 4 business days, subject to inventory on hand and quantity ordered. Please call us if you have any questions or special needs. Qty:

Description   How the nation is really run, and how decisions are really made, keep changing. Today, with the border between government functions and private consultants and lobbyists more porous and indistinct than ever before, new kinds of cliques and networks are assuming power. This is a transformation that, until now, we have lacked the concepts to understand. In Shadow Elite, anthropologist Janine Wedel charts, for the first time, the new system of power and influence that arose with the twenty-first century. At its apex are players and networks loyal only to their own. They relax government rules of accountability as well as business codes of competition, undermining government, free markets, and democracy itself. The drive to privatize and deregulate, and the proliferation of complex technologies, have created an environment for players who redefine themselves as state or private, depending on the opportunities. From the manipulators who merged state and private power in the ruins of the Soviet empire to those who pushed us into a misguided war in Iraq, to those now playing at the margins of America’s increasingly privatized foreign policy, Shadow Elite explains the spread of a new species in the ecosystem of public policy. Profoundly original, it speaks to theories of democracy, international relations, and the state, and will no doubt spark controversy.   Related Products... Pipe Dreams Greed, Ego, And The Death Of Enron: The Blood Bankers: Tales from the Global Undergro Change the Way You See Everything The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Vol Our Price: $8.57 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $12.90 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $13.77 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $14.37 for 25 - 99 copies Add Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Banker to the Poor On Becoming a Leader: (Paperback) Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsid Our Price: $9.57 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $9.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $10.50 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $20.40 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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