What ruling class? -- The history of the Australian and New Zealand ruling classes -- What do the Australian and New Zealand ruling classes look like today? -- Australian networks of power -- The New Zealand interlocks of power -- Think tanks, corporate collectivity, and the reproduction of ruling ideas -- Gender and the ruling classes -- Back to the future
Summary
It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal intellectuals and their media sympathisers. By contrast, this book looks at the real elite in Australian and New Zealand society and shows that there is still a ruling class based upon economic dominance. G Murray, Australia
