ISBN:
9781789206173
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
206 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Dislocations 29
DDC:
305.5234095491
Abstract:
Following the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of the elite in Pakistan. In doing so, it reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Note on Anonymity -- Introduction: Making Money in an Unequal and Unstable World -- Chapter 1. Middle Class Woman in an Elite Man’s World -- Chapter 2. Creating and Protecting an Elite Class -- Chapter 3. Old Money, New Money -- Chapter 4. Making an Elite Family -- Chapter 5. The Elite Network -- Chapter 6. The Culture of Exemptions -- Conclusion: What Pakistan’s Elite Reveals About Global Capitalism -- References -- Index --
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