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Plutocrats : the rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else / Chrystia Freeland.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385669719 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xv, 330 p. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Doubleday Canada, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references 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. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Poor. Rich people > Conduct of life. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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In the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1%; it's the wealthiest .01% who are fast outpacing the rest of us. Today's colossal fortunes are amassed by the diligent toiling of smart, perceptive businessmen who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition.
Cracking open this tight-knit world is Chrystia Freeland, an acclaimed business journalist. At ease in Davos or Dubai, Freeland has reported on the lives and minds of these new super-elites for nearly a decade. Grounding her interviews in the economics and history of modern capitalism, she provides examples of the new wealth and its consequences. She showcases the $3 million birthday party of a New York financier months before the financial meltdown; details the closed-door 2005 SEC meeting where the US government allowed investment banks to write their own regulatory laws; and tells how the Bank of Canada's Mark Carney became a key figure in the central battle between the plutocracy and the rest of us.
Brightly written and powerfully researched, Freeland's Plutocrats will be a lightning rod event in the midst of the US election season.
