{"product_id":"9781641774154","title":"A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims","description":"Author: Andrew F. Puzder\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781641774154\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Encounter Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 23 Apr 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. Andrew F. Puzder exposes how the secretive consolidation of financial power under the guise of \"ESG\" represents a new collectivist threat to the free market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the last thirty-five years, asset manager mega-giants BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard have accumulated unprecedented levels of stock ownership in virtually every major US company. Voting the shares they hold for clients allows these companies to force their own \"environmental, social, and governance\" or \"ESG\" agenda on the American corporate sector and, by extension, on all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn asset manager's traditional duty is to maximize returns for its investors, but these financial elites expand their duties through \"stakeholder capitalism,\" the idea that a company is responsible not only for its actual shareholders, but for everyone who is affected by the company-which translates to \u003ci\u003eeveryone\u003c\/i\u003e in the community. Thus, they can impose their preferred ESG goals under the guise of benefitting an amorphous group of non-investors-a group that has no say over whether ESG goals actually \"benefit\" them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis elite-dominated economic system is nothing more than socialism in sheep's clothing. \"ESG\" defines the champagne socialist agenda that would devastate the working and middle classes globally. Now, in the face of rising opposition, these financial elites are suddenly rebranding-shifting their terminology to conceal their intent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Tyranny for the Good of its Victims\u003c\/i\u003e exposes how, although they may abandon the acronym \"ESG,\" these elites have pursued-and will continue to pursue-their ESG goals: to transform our consumer-driven free-market economy into one that is subject to their elitist demands, overriding the will of the people whom they deem incapable of self-government.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836300546206,"sku":"ADS-9781641774154","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781641774154.jpg?v=1778737490","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781641774154","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}