Plutocrats : the rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else / Chrystia Freeland.
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- ISBN: 9781594204098
- ISBN: 9781594204098
- Physical Description: xv, 330 p. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-317) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- History and why it matters -- Culture of the plutocrats -- Superstars -- Responding to revolution -- Rent-seeking -- Plutocrats and the rest of us -- Conclusion. |
Summary, etc.: | A journalist and industry specialist for Reuters examines the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, taking a non-partisan look into the businesspeople who are amassing colossal fortunes and preferring the company of similar people around the world. |
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Subject: | Rich people > Conduct of life. Poor. |
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Plutocrats : The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
CHRYSTIAÂ FREELAND is the Editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, following years of service at the Financial Times both in New York and London. She was the deputy editor of Canada's The Globe and Mail and has reported for the Financial Times , The Economist , and The Washington Post . Freeland's last book was Sale of a Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution . She lives in New York City. blogs.reuters.com/chrystia-freeland twitter.com/#!/cafreeland