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URL:https://debtcollective.org/event/college-for-all-jubilee-school-plutoc
 ratic-governance/
SUMMARY:College for All Jubilee School: Plutocratic Governance
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we discuss how billionaires from finance and big tec
 h adopted more oligarchical roles in US politics and higher education with
  Charlie Eaton\, Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Merced and author 
 of the book Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers i
 n US Higher Education.\n\n 	Charlie Eaton is an Associate Professor of Soc
 iology at UC Merced where he co-founded the Higher Education\, Race\, and 
 the Economy (HERE) Lab. He investigates the power of elites in politics an
 d the economy\, as well as policy and organizational strategies to promote
  more equitable distributions of power and wealth. My book\, Bankers in th
 e Ivory Tower (University of Chicago Press\, 2022)\, is about the relation
 ship between financialization\, inequalities in higher education\, and the
  rise of private equity and hedge fund investors among US billionaires. Th
 e book won the Pierre Bourdieu best book award from the American Sociologi
 cal Association. His ongoing research examines how billionaires from finan
 ce and big tech adopted more oligarchical roles in US politics and he writ
 es about this project in his newsletter\, Axis of Oligarchy.\n\nThis sessi
 on is a part of the larger Jubilee School: College for All series.
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