Description
It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal intellectuals and their media sympathisers. By contrast this book looks at the real elite in Australian and New Zealand society and shows that there is still a ruling class based upon economic dominance. From an analysis of corporate and public records, interviews, and other primary and secondary data, it develops a picture of networks of power that are changing but are as real as any network in the past.
Table of Contents
Contents: What ruling class?; The history of the Australian and New Zealand ruling classes; What do the Australian and New Zealand ruling classes look like today?; Australian networks of power; The New Zealand interlocks of power; Think tanks, corporate collectivity and the reproduction of ruling ideas; Gender and the ruling classes; Back to the future; Bibliography; Index.
