Ep. 0111: Introduction to Power Elite Analysis

Join CJ as he discusses:

• What “power elite” and “power elite analysis” mean
• Power elite analysis is not “conspiracy theorizing”
• Some early practitioners of power elite analysis, such as C. Wright Mills, Carroll Quigley, and Murray Rothbard
• Ways of identifying & understanding the power elite in practice
• Things to keep in mind when studying the power elite

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External Links

• George Carlin on “the big club” that you’re not in
• Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray Rothbard
• An ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL lecture from 1984 by Murray Rothbard on the origins of the Federal Reserve, in which he also discusses the concept of power elite analysis in general
• Who Rules America? (website based on G. William Domhoff’s important power elite work, Who Rules America?)

Internal Links (lots of past DHP episodes have dealt with power elite analysis in various ways) – Here are a few:

• DHP Ep. 0108: “Edge Men” of the Power Elite
• DHP Ep. 0092: Top Ten Dangerous US History Books (at least half of these are books are focused on power elite analysis of one type or another)
• DHP Ep. 0084: DHP Villains: Robert Morris, Original Bankster
• DHP Ep. 0057: Banksters & Control Freaks
• DHP Ep. 0053: DHP Villains: William Stephenson