Summary of Winners Take All

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas, is an exposé of society’s most powerful players and their efforts to “change the world” while maintaining their own power and privilege. Giridharadas examines how the winners of today’s economy—the Davos-attending executives and major philanthropists—claim to be part of the solution to the world’s problems, but are often part of the same system that created these problems in the first place. By taking a critical look at the do-gooder elite, Giridharadas challenges us to rethink our assumptions about the power dynamics of the world, and offers a path forward to create real, lasting change.