Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity
Please note that this book will ship out in the third week of September
By Peter Phillips
Foreword by Dan Kovalik
Titans of Capital, by political sociologist Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored, shows how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the wealth of the world’s super-rich, to the detriment of everyone else and the global environment.
Phillips takes us deep into the world of the transnational finance companies whose outsize influence undermines everything from our environment to our democracy to our basic human rights. Titans of Capital offers precise (and staggering) figures for just how much wealth these firms control and how they invest it in projects that enrich the few at the expense of the many. Phillips examines the networks, political activity, investments, and propaganda efforts of 117 board members of these firms—“the Titans”—a new global elite who wield nearly unchecked power and whose wealth only grew with the pandemic.
Please note that this book will ship out in the third week of September
By Peter Phillips
Foreword by Dan Kovalik
Titans of Capital, by political sociologist Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored, shows how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the wealth of the world’s super-rich, to the detriment of everyone else and the global environment.
Phillips takes us deep into the world of the transnational finance companies whose outsize influence undermines everything from our environment to our democracy to our basic human rights. Titans of Capital offers precise (and staggering) figures for just how much wealth these firms control and how they invest it in projects that enrich the few at the expense of the many. Phillips examines the networks, political activity, investments, and propaganda efforts of 117 board members of these firms—“the Titans”—a new global elite who wield nearly unchecked power and whose wealth only grew with the pandemic.
Please note that this book will ship out in the third week of September
By Peter Phillips
Foreword by Dan Kovalik
Titans of Capital, by political sociologist Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored, shows how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the wealth of the world’s super-rich, to the detriment of everyone else and the global environment.
Phillips takes us deep into the world of the transnational finance companies whose outsize influence undermines everything from our environment to our democracy to our basic human rights. Titans of Capital offers precise (and staggering) figures for just how much wealth these firms control and how they invest it in projects that enrich the few at the expense of the many. Phillips examines the networks, political activity, investments, and propaganda efforts of 117 board members of these firms—“the Titans”—a new global elite who wield nearly unchecked power and whose wealth only grew with the pandemic.
Praise for Titans of Capital
“Peter Phillips’ new blockbuster study on the transnational power elite could not be more urgent and timely ... This book should be read by every person concerned with the burning issues of our day and the fight for a more just and equitable world.”
—William I. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, and Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Lifting the veil on how global wealth managers make decisions that benefit the few and impoverish the rest of us, Titans is an in-depth investigation, an expert sociological analysis, and a searing exposé …”
—Robin Andersen, Professor Emerita of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
“With Titans of Capital, Professor Peter Phillips has produced a masterful follow-up to Giants: The Global Power Elite ... If you want to know about who is running the world on behalf of the global oligarchy of wealth, read Titans of Capital!”
—Aaron Good, author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
“In the revolutionary sociological tradition of C. Wright Mills’ The Power Elite, Peter Phillips has done it again! Titans of Capital is an invaluable resource for ordinary people, journalists, political scientists, philosophers, and, in a not-so-distant world, tribunals holding war-profiteering billionaires and their military and governmental and media enablers to account ...”
—Peter Byrne, investigative journalist and science writer based in Northern California
“Some years ago, I wrote a short endorsement of Peter Phillips’ excellent book Giants: The Global Power Elite. His new book, Titans of Capital is even better, making connections between corporate capital and almost all the institutions of social life globally – a textbook of capitalism’s deficiencies.”
—Leslie Sklair, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
“The concentration of wealth has historically been the foundation for the downfall of many great civilizations. Titans of Capital provides an unfiltered view of how the global concentration of wealth, along with the destructive power and greed that comes with it, is repeating itself.”
—Tim Ogburn, Environmental Scientist and Community Activist
“In the much-anticipated follow-up to his landmark book, Giants: The Global Power Elite, political sociologist Peter Phillips returns with Titans of Capital. Phillips tracks the identities and interests of what he calls the Titans—117 of the wealthiest, most powerful individuals in the world. He deftly exposes the interconnectedness of their financial networks and shows how they influence policy through their social/political circles—all while profiting from endless warfare, environmental destruction, and human suffering.”
—Mickey Huff, Professor of Journalism; Director of Project Censored; President, Media Freedom Foundation
“… In his latest book, Titans of Capital, Peter Phillips builds on his previous work, Giants: The Global Power Elite, to present a compelling and comprehensive analysis of how national and international elites, the Titans, shape our world … Titans of Capital provides a critical exploration of the systemic structures that underpin and protect the interests of the global elite, offering invaluable insights into the contemporary dynamics of wealth and power.”
—Nicole Wolfe, Medical Sociologist, Co-director, Community Engagement at the Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Southern California
“There are very few books that are as important as Peter Phillips’ Titans of Capital. Read it, pass it to those you love and care about …”
—Joseph O. Boyd-Barrett, Professor Emeritus Communications Studies, Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and California State Polytechnic University
“Titans of Capital unmasks the oligarchic class overseeing the planet’s destruction and gives humanity survival instructions: confront the perpetrators!”
—Abby Martin, The Empire Files
"This book is an important antidote to the far right's conspiracy fictions and fake populism as well as to civic textbook illusions of a democratic republic. With sociological vision and empirical tools, Peter Phillips opens a window on the real power-holders in the profoundly unequal and exploitative system of global capitalism."
—Robert Hackett, Professor Emeritus of Communication, Simon Fraser University; member of judging panel, Project Censored