These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs – and Wrecks – America

If you need a booster of the energy that led you to work in the Social Capital sector, it can be helpful to consider the alternative. In These Are the Plunderers, you’ll find a vivid reminder of what happens when companies put people and their well-being last. Gretchen Morgenson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and Joshua Rosner, a policy analyst, team up to analyze how a focus on profits above all happens in many companies backed by private equity funds. Through diligent reporting, they show how this approach leads to job losses, reduced worker benefits and pension returns, higher healthcare costs and business bankruptcies. It’s definitely not a feel-good book, but it is a powerful reminder of why you do the work you do.