Janine Wedel -The World's Power Brokers Undermining Democracy and the Free Market Pt.3

Janine R. Wedel writes about the privatization of public and foreign policy, corruption and the state, and development and foreign aid through the unique lens of a social anthropologist. She is the first anthropologist to win the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.Professor Wedel has been a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics that are typically the terrain of political scientists, economists, or sociologists. After 25 years studying the role of informal systems in shaping communist and post-communist societies, Professor Wedel has also turned her attention to the United States. In a new book, Shadow Elite: The New Agents of Power and Influence (forthcoming, Basic Books), she explores the ways in which today's movers and shakers brandish power and influence, the new rules they are writing themselves, and the implications for democracy.
Interview by Pete Dominick

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