airline industry in
authoritarianism and
branches of government in. See also US Congress
checks and balances in
Code War and
corporate power in
cyber war and
equality of opportunity in
government of
government service in
gross domestic product of
health care in
loss of status as go-to model
meat consumption in
minimum wage in
Nordic model and
open vs. closed systems in
organized labor in
paralysis of government in
political polarization of
populism and
race for technological dominance and
social contract in
tax havens and
techno-authoritarianism in
vetocracy in
weakened institutions in
World War II and
United States Digital Service (USDS)
University of California, Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Toronto
US Commerce Department
US Congress
lobbying and
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
US Constitution
US Customs and Border Protection
US Department of Defense
US Department of Labor
US House of Representatives
US Munitions List
USNS Comfort
US Senate
US State Department
U.S. Steel
US Supreme Court
Utah
value-added tax (VAT)
venture capitalist
Verisign
Verizon
vertical integration
Veterans Affairs Department (VA)
vetocracy
Visa
Volkswagen
Wagner Act (1935)
Wall Street
Wall Street Journal
Walmart
Walt Disney
wartime, corporations and
wastewater
wealth gap
WeChat
welfare system. See safety net programs
West Virginia
West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency
Wilson, Charles E.
workers. See also organized labor
equity-based compensation for
new ways to organize
wages and
worker pensions
worker protections
World Bank
World Central Kitchen
World Economic Forum
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War I
World War II
Wu, Tim
Wyoming
Xi Jinping
Xinjiang
Yale University
Ye Shouzeng
Zakaria, Fareed
Zeke’s coffee
Zhigulevskoye
Zimbabwe
Zucman, Gabriel
ALSO BY ALEC ROSS
The Industries of the Future
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A New York Times bestselling author and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Bologna Business School, ALEC Ross is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. He served as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State to help modernize the practice of diplomacy and advance America’s foreign policy interests. He began his career as a sixth-grade teacher in Baltimore. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction
1: Shareholder and Stakeholder Capitalism
2: The Government: Billions of People Are Governed More by Companies than by Countries
3: The Workers
4: Taxes and the Wormhole in the Global Economy
5: Foreign Policy: Does Every Company Need Its Own State Department, Pentagon, and CIA?
6: The Geography of Change: The Contest for Power between Closed and Open Systems
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Alec Ross
About the Author
Copyright
THE RAGING 2020S: COMPANIES, COUNTRIES, PEOPLE—AND THE FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE. Copyright © 2021 by Alec Ross. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
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Title: The raging 2020s: companies, countries, people—and the fight for our future / Alec Ross.
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Identifiers: LCCN 2021021336 (print) | LCCN 2021021337 (ebook) | ISBN 9781250770929 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250770936 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Corporate power—United States. | Business and politics—United States. | Corporations—Political activity—United States. | United States— Economic conditions—2009–
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