We explore some of the books key arguments and what they mean for philanthropy. Accessibility help Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer. Anand Giridharadas's new book "Winners Take All: the Elite Charade of Changing the World" is a potent critique of big-money philanthropy that is making waves in the US and beyond. Described by a Guardian reviewer as “superb hate-reading”, writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas‘s latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World investigates the hypocrisy of billionaire “do-gooders”.. As a conference-circuit regular and former McKinsey consultant, writer Anand Giridharadas has seen firsthand business leaders' efforts to solve social problems.

The ‘insiders’ outsider’ on why business elites are part of the problem, not the solution. In Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Giridharadas explores and unpacks various myths regarding the role of elites in engendering social change, showing how the efforts of America’s elite to ‘do good’ typically help to maintain their advantaged positions. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World is a 2018 non-fiction book by Anand Giridharadas.It is his third book and was published by Alfred A. Knopf on August 28, 2018. Anand Giridharadas: Stop Spreading the Plutocrats’ Phony Religion. He is a former columnist for The New York Times.He is the author of three books, India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking (2011), The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas (2014), and Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018). Yet, in Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Giridharadas, a former New York Times foreign correspondent, explains why we should not be so quick to celebrate these advances. The book appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list Described by a Guardian reviewer as “superb hate-reading”, writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas‘s latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World investigates the hypocrisy of billionaire “do-gooders”. Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. [Anand Giridharadas] zeros in on what he sees as a glaring hypocrisy among affluent elites: that while many well-meaning (and well-off) Americans claim to want to improve society's inequalities, they don't challenge the structures that preserve that inequality, not wanting to jeopardize their own privileged positions.” —Jessica Smith, NPR, “Best Books of 2018” “Business elites are taking over the work of changing the world,” Giridharadas observes. By Armando Arrieta. The book is a courageous, in-depth critique of the social reform and international development efforts of billionaire philanthropists and corporations. Illustration by Shout for TIME. Anand Giridharadas (/ ˈ ɑː n ən d ˌ ɡ ɪ r ɪ ˌ d ɑːr ə ˈ d ɑː s /; born September 27, 1981) is an American writer. It is, with a bit of a stretch, the premise of a new book by Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Based on that experience, I find Anand Giridharadas’s Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World refreshingly candid and insightful. Cookies on FT Sites. How America’s Elites Lost Their Grip. Having become a fellow at the Aspen Institute, the New York Times journalist and former McKinsey consultant Anand Giridharadas was comfortably ensconced in the world of elite philanthropy. Whether it’s the US government shutdown or the UK’s Brexit chaos, best-selling author of “Winners Take All” Anand Giridharadas explains why he thinks society’s global elites are to blame.