power (social sciences)

In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let special interests run the regulators, engineer election results, use fear and the power of the state to keep the rabble in line, manufacture consent, marginalize the population. In Requiem for the American Dream, Chomsky devotes a chapter to each of these ten principles, and adds readings from some of the core texts that have influenced his thinking to bolster his argument.

Readers uncover truths about privilege and power that can help lead the productive conversations that are necessary to social justice education and beginning the work of accepting responsibility.

A collection of essays explore various issues relating to the deep state, discussing what the term means and whether or not it is a conspiracy theory.

[Argues about] the closed, inaccessible, leader-driven, and jealously guarded model of "old power" versus the open, participatory, and peer-driven "new power", which is power made by many and channeled rather than hoarded, and provides the tools for using new power to successfully share ideas and lead movements in business, politics, popular culture, and social justice, drawing on current examples such as Facebook, Uber, and the #BlackLivesMatter, and #MeToo movements.

"Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because hierarchies create the historical archives? What if we are missing equally powerful but less visible networks-leaving them to the conspiracy theorists, with their dreams of all-powerful Illuminati? The twenty-first century has been hailed as the Networked Age ... argues that social networks are nothing new. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Far from being novel, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the personal computer in the role of the printing press."--Provided by publisher.

Examines the nature of personal power and argues that it is given, not taken, by others in our lives, and maintained via giving it away through compassion and selflessness. Offers twenty "Power Principles" for retaining power, using it for good, how to avoid abusing it, and how to help those around us gain power.

An investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to the ruling elites has vanished, examining such topics as the rise of American capitalism, visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, the surrender to contemporary delusional fables of freedom, and the politics of fear.

Discusses the laws of power and explains how those laws have affected the lives of some of the most powerful figures in history, including Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Kissinger, and P.T. Barnum.