Rise Beyond Oligarchs is for curious people, especially readers in their late teens and twenties, who want to understand why the world works the way it does. We explain how power and money get captured by a few, from whole countries to your own town, and what people have done to win them back.
Our starting point is the idea at the center of Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson: places tend to prosper when power and opportunity are spread widely, and stall when a narrow elite writes the rules for itself. We summarize ideas like this in our own words and point you to the original work.
We are not tied to any party or campaign. Concentrated power is a problem whether it sits with governments, companies or the very rich, and we write about it wherever we find it.
Posts are written and edited by Edward Garcia. Read our editorial standards to see how we source and correct our work.