New Directions in Elite Studies

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Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Section 1 The myth of a global business elite
	2 The international business elite: fact or fiction?
	3 Degrees of transnationalization: the case of the Dutch business elite
	4 Dynamics of internationalization: a sequential analysis of the careers of Swiss banking elites
Section 2 Scrutinizing the power elite and the field of power
	5 A place at what table? An analysis of symbolic capital hierarchies at the annual dinner of Norges Bank (the Norwegian central bank)
	6 The gendered reproduction of the upper class
	7 A Scandinavian variety of power elites? Key institutional orders in Danish elite networks
	8 The anatomy of the British economic “elite”
Section 3 Social closure and reproduction strategies
	9 The social history of a capitalist class: wealth holders in Stockholm, 1914–2006
	10 Beyond meritocracy: wealth accumulation in the German upper classes
	11 Gendering the elites: an ethnographic approach to elite women’s lives and the reproduction of inequality
Section 4 Elite education, recruitment and legitimacy
	12 The elite placement power of professors of law and economic sciences
	13 Elite . . . but not that elite: envisioning elite status at a second-rank grande école
	14 Boundary work: power and liminality in management consulting
	15 Theorizing elites in unequal times: class, constellation and accumulation
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