Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
Chrystia Freeland - Penguin Group (USA), 2013
There has always
been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means
to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats
proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at
breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead
by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a
cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence,
Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth
into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with
the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and
economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time
