What billionaires want: the secret influence of America’s 100 richest

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/30/billionaire-stealth-politics-america-100-richest-what-they-want

by godelmachine • 8 years ago

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fgheorghe• 8 years ago

Yet another guardian “the rich are bad” type of article.

altec3• 8 years ago

I personally wouldn't summarize the article as "the rich are bad."

But more as: "A lot of ultra-rich people are secretly advancing agendas that benefit them"

zakm• 8 years ago

I'm not seeing any reference or source for these claims in the article. Did I just miss it?

linguaz• 8 years ago

In the article the authors mention conducting a study:

We have come to this conclusion based on an exhaustive, web-based study of everything that the 100 wealthiest US billionaires have said or done, over a 10-year period, concerning several major issues of public policy. For each billionaire we used several dozen carefully selected keywords to find all publicly available information about their specific talk or actions related to any aspect of social security, any type of taxation, or anything related to abortion, same-sex marriage, or immigration policy.

the authors of the article have written a book, coming out soon:

Benjamin I Page, Jason Seawright, and Matthew J Lacombe are (respectively) Fulcher professor of decision making, professor of political science, and PhD candidate in political science at Northwestern University. They are co-authors of Billionaires and Stealth Politics, forthcoming in 2018 with the University of Chicago Press.

Perhaps references & the like will be found there. Looks like the book won't be shipping till early December, but you can peruse the table of contents here:

https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo29...

What billionaires want: the secret influence of America’s 100 richest

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