In the author's view "the war lords, the corporation chieftains, the political directorate"--the choice of terms suggests the temper of the book--interlock to create the American power élite, a system ...

Wright Mills introduced the term “power elite.” Mills described a triangle of power, in which corporate elites ally with the upper echelons of the civilian government bureaucracy and the military.

Rarely have so many Chinese billionaires gathered in one place as happened this week in Beijing, when leader Xi Jinping summoned the nation’s top entrepreneurs and CEOs from technology and ...