Английски език
This book updates Machiavelli's The Prince for our time. Oligarchy is a hot topic: the visible and overwhelming power asserted by oligarchic forces rings throughout the press. Machiavelli begins stating that "All states, all powers, that have held and hold rule over men have been and are either republics or principalities"-this book rewrites that as "All states and all companies that have ever ruled people have functioned as oligarchies." Rather than dealing with the form of governments, the author addresses the operations and networks of governance for both states and corporations as a single set of common processes. In doing so, this book links politics, ecology and literature and offers both wielders and critics of power a common ground based on how people in power actually conduct themselves. Working across academic disciplines, the book establishes an epistemological taxonomy for the future of governance in the Anthropocene.
