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C. Wright Mills Quotes:

Ocupation: Sociologist

Life: August 28, 1916 - March 20, 1962

Birthday: August 28

Death: March 20

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

- C. Wright Mills

source: C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.18, Oxford University Press

topic: Military, Power, Circles, Overlapping

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