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Although it was deliberately avoided in the title, the word ‘oligarchy’ has appeared very often in the book itself. It is a word almost as controversial as the group of individuals to whom it is applied. The reason is that it is a word which is inherently, in its etymology and its use over the millennia since Plato and Aristotle first coined it, about political power and indeed ruling power.
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Fortescue, S. (2006). Oligarchy and Political Power. In: Russia’s Oil Barons and Metal Magnates. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800748_5
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