Böcker av Carl Rhodes

From Occupy Wall Street to 'tax-the-rich' activism, there has been growing resistance to the unearned wealth and power commanded by the billionaire class - an ultra-elite social class who have sequestered the world's wealth while others languish in poverty and hunger. How do they get away with it? Coupled with their immense financial resources, a set of inter-connected myths portray billionaires as a 'force for good' - Heroic billionaires - Generous billionaires - Meritorious billionaires - Vigilante billionaires These archetypes are allowing billionaire wealth and power to set us back to old-style feudalism and plutocracy. Offering a trenchant critique of the new breed of billionaires, this incisive book testifies to the growing political will worldwide to take concrete actions to support economic justice and democratic equality.

The authors describe the relevance of five international case studies in relation to Australia's creation of a Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise, identified as a key priority by the government in its 2020 Defence Strategic Update.