Elites Without Hierarchies: Intermediaries, ‘Agency’ and the Super-Rich
Elites Without Hierarchies: Intermediaries, ‘Agency’ and the Super-Rich
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没有等级制度的精英：中间人、“代理机构”和超级富豪
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2017
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W. Davies
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当今超级富豪的一个主要特征是他们远离公共机构、话语、身份和法律的约束。我们不清楚传统的阶级或精英理论是否能充分描述财富是如何不受政治或公共干预的。受到齐美尔将金钱视为一种目的论真空（完全没有任何固定目的）的启发，本章考虑了另一种构想超级富豪的方式，即“代理人”或中介网络。有人认为，“代理人”代表了当代超级富豪政治经济学的重要组成部分，因为他们代表非常富有的人行事，以防止财富卷入政治或文化争议。
A principal characteristic of the super-rich today is their distance from the constraints of public institutions, discourses, identities and legal constraints. It is not clear that conventional theories of class or elites adequately capture the way in which wealth is insulated from political or public interference. Inspired by Simmel’s account of money as a type of teleological vacuum—a sheer absence of any fixed purpose—this chapter considers an alternative way of conceiving of the super-rich, in terms of networks of ‘agents’ or intermediaries. It is argued that ‘agents’ represent an important constituent in the contemporary political economy of the super-rich, because they act on behalf of the very wealthy, so as to prevent wealth from becoming embroiled in political or cultural controversies.