Book Review: ‘$uperHubs’

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Book Review: ‘$uperHubs’
Sandra Navidi uses network science to describe how financial elites rule our world
By Valentin Schmid, Epoch Times   | January 26, 2017 AT 2:10 PM

Sandra Navidi, CEO of BeyondGlobal and author of "$uperhubs." (Courtesy of Sandra Navidi)

The World Economic Forum (WEF) lasts only a few days in January, when the international elite jet into Davos, Switzerland, give talks, network, make deals, and fly out again. These are billionaires like George Soros and Ray Dalio, as well as officials like Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde.

The people who meet for a few days at conferences like the WEF shape public policy and markets, and therefore a big part of our lives. Who are these people, and how much do we know about them? The carefully planned public appearances at conferences like the WEF or in the media merely scratch the surface of a network of rich and influential people who tend to stick to their kind and whose dealings are often shrouded in secrecy.


The cover of $uperhubs by Sandra Navidi


Fortunately for us, Sandra Navidi, CEO of the consultancy BeyondGlobal and herself an insider at the highest level, has written a book decoding the ways of the financial elite and their networks. In “$uperHubs: How the Financial Elite & Their Networks Rule the World,” Navidi not only provides examples of the financial world’s biggest players, the titular “superhubs,” but also analyzes the network as a system—and its potential danger to society.

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