The new power elite [electronic resource]

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자료유형	단행본
서명/저자사항	The new power elite [electronic resource] / Heather Gautney.
개인저자	Gautney, Heather, author.
발행사항	New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2023]
형태사항	1 online resource (313 pages)
ISBN	9780190637477 0190637471 0190637463 9780190637453 0190637455 9780190637460
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Introduction -- The State (1973 -- 2000) -- The State (2000 -- 2017) -- The State (2017 -- 2022) -- The Military -- Wall Street -- Billionaires -- Celebrity -- Publics and Masses -- Conclusion.
요약	"A "remake" of C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite, this book charts patterns of elite domination amid paradigmatic changes in the structuring of U.S. social institutions and political life since the postwar period that lay bare the essentially corrupt and authoritarian nature of neoliberal capitalism and the power elites behind it. Driven by an inexhaustible pursuit of profits and wealth accumulation, power elites of the last half century conceived of and imposed a new form of global capitalism that has positioned the "free market" as an ultimate political and cultural authority. In the process, they have suppressed policies and rules, social movements, and political organizations that might impede profitability and exacted an unspeakable toll on human and planetary life. Similar to Mills, The New Power Elite elucidates the means through which today's elites accumulate wealth and power, including the subordination of military and governmental systems, media and culture, and labor, finance, and production to "market imperatives." It departs from Mills, however, in accounting for major transformations in the political geography of corporations and labor, the rise of finance capital, and role of U.S. imperialism in the structuring of global capitalism. And, unlike Mills, the book argues that while the American State, mass media, and cultural institutions can still operate as a sites of contestation, political, military, and cultural institutions today should not be considered as autonomous from market forces, as their principal function is to serve the interests of capital and operate on its behalf"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(지명)	United States. --fast
일반주제명	Elite (Social sciences) --United States. Power (Social sciences) --United States. Social institutions --United States. Neoliberalism --United States. Elite (Social sciences) Neoliberalism. Power (Social sciences) Social institutions. Society & culture: general. Society.
분류기호(DDC)	305.520973
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