The Oligarch: Rewriting Machiavelli's the Prince for Our Time

by James Sherry

This book uses the structure of Machiavelli's The Prince to show how governance has changed over the last 500 years. If Machiavelli focuses on power concentrated in the hands of the republic or principalities, The Oligarch looks at how states and companies today function as oligarchies. Rather than dealing with the form of government, it addresses the operations and networks of governance for both states and corporations as a single set of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319621688
• ISBN13: 9783319621685
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"