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03059aam a22004458i 4500 001 8335DBC0EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210722010305 008 210519s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021021336 020 $a 1250770920 : HRD 020 $a 9781250770929 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a HD2785 $b .R59 2021 100 1 $a Ross, Alec, $d 1971- $e author. 245 14 $a The raging 2020s : $b companies, countries, people--and the fight for our future / $c Alec Ross. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2109 264 1 $a New York : $b Henry Holt and Company, $c 2021. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Shareholder and stakeholder capitalism -- The government: billions of people are governed more by companies than by countries -- The workers -- Taxes and the wormhole in the global economy -- Foreign policy: does every company need its own state department, pentagon, and CIA? -- The geography of change: the contest for power between closed and open systems. 520 $a "For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. The state holds the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose. As the marketconsolidates, the lines between Walmart and the Halls of Congress have become razor-thin. Private companies have begun to behave like nations, and with the government bogged down in bureaucratic negotiations and partisan wars, people look to nimble, powerful firms to solve societal problems-and to be our moral standard-bearers. As Walter Isaacson said about Ross's first book, "The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather than frightening." Through interviews with the world's most influential thinkers and stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models, Alec Ross proposes a new social contract-one that resets the equilibrium between corporations,the governing, and the governed"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Corporate power $z United States. 650 0 $a Business and politics $z United States. 650 0 $a Corporations $x Political activity $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Economic conditions $y 2009- 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Ross, Alec, 1971- $t Raging 2020s. $b First edition $d New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021 $z 9781250770936 $w (DLC) 2021021337 941 $a 9 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314022719.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031214.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220920011029.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20220104012054.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20211102011124.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20211102010554.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20211002013024.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210911010226.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722064952.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8335DBC0EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search