Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market

Indispensable.

Only if you are already a member of an élite class of influential operators which author Janine Wedel calls "flexians" and which I refer to as the corporato-political élite, or you simply care little or nothing about the world of high-level business and political affairs in which all the most important issues of our society are hashed out, can you afford to remain ignorant of this book.

To understand what's currently going on---that is, the way things currently work in highly placed political and corporate affairs--- you simply have to inform yourself of the situation which Wedel sets out in her book.

So far, my sole complaint is that there are too many places where some expressions are awkwardly worded, poorly show more crafted. But the book's merits put such flaws into the pale. show less