The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People – and the Fight for Our Future by Alec Ross

About the Book

'This book will challenge you to rethink some of your assumptions about democracy, capitalism, and globalization.' - Adam Grant

Huge corporations are acting like nations, global wealth is going to billionaires and ordinary people are suffering. It's set to be a rocky decade - but we can fix it.

As the market consolidates under fewer and larger companies, it's increasingly in the interest of private companies to behave like nations. And when the government is bogged down in bureaucratic negotiations and culture wars, people begin to look to nimble, powerful companies to solve society's problems - and to be our moral standard-bearers. It shouldn't be like this.

New York Times bestselling author Alec Ross weaves interviews with the world's most influential thinkers with fascinating stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models being implemented around the world, to propose a new social contract - one that benefits workers and everyday citizens in the face of unprecedented global change.

Editorial Reviews

In The Raging 2020s, Alec Ross... argues that our social contract is broken, that the roles of business, labor, government, and foreign countries need to be rethought... An immensely (and unusually) readable account... Like watching a master jewel thief at work, except that this is not the movies, where the transfer is often from rich to poor. Quite the opposite.― New York Times Published On: 2021-10-01

Government has ceded authority to corporations, which naturally act in their own interest rather than for the common good... A provocative, well-made case. ― Kirkus

About the Author

Alec Ross

Alec Ross is the New York Times bestselling author of The Industries of the Future and one of the world's leading experts on innovation. Now a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bologna Business School of l'Universitá di Bologna, he served in the Presidential Administration of Barack Obama for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is also Board Partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm, and has been named a Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine.