![]() ![]() ![]() Similarly, for poverty, education, access to medicines, and clean water. The great conceit of MarketWorld and its adherents, according to Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, is their unshakable faith that the same tools and ideology that created a problem such as massive wealth inequality can also solve the problem of wealth inequality. ![]() Their vernacular, the vernacular of business, has permeated almost every sphere of our lives, displacing hoary notions like social justice and equality. They talk of synergy and scale, win-win outcomes, opportunity, and entrepreneurship, impact investing, and doing-good-by-doing-well at elite, corporate-sponsored, and invitation-only gatherings such as TED, the Aspen Institute, Summit at Sea, and the Clinton Global Initiative. They refer to themselves as thought leaders, connectors, curators, change agents, incubators, and influencers. They are the winners of the global economic game, from Wall Street, hedge funds, technology, the pharmaceutical industry, and philanthropic organizations. They are the denizens of MarketWorld - defined by Global Business Network in 1989 as a “fast-paced, globally networked finance capitalism” - and they believe no public problem exists that cannot be solved by private actors employing free-market tools. ![]()
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