Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas takes a hard look at the world of wealthy philanthropists, social-impact conferences, and CEOs who promise to change the world. He argues that this kind of elite giving lets the winners of an unfair system present themselves as generous while avoiding the changes, like higher taxes or stronger regulation, that might actually threaten their position. The result, he writes, is a lot of activity that feels like progress but leaves the underlying inequality in place. Drawing on interviews with insiders, the book questions whether the people who benefit most from the current order can ever be trusted to fix it.
What you might want to know about Winners Take All
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
A journalist argues that the global elite's brand of do-good philanthropy quietly protects the system that made them rich while crowding out real change.
Yes. Malala named it among the books she was reading in a 2020 interview about her Fearless book club.
Winners Take All was written by Anand Giridharadas, published in 2018 by Knopf.
Winners Take All is 304 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Winners Take All takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Winners Take All is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
