Description
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize 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.
Author: Chrystia Freeland
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/24/2013
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780143124061
ISBN10: 0143124064
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Economics | General
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize 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.
Author: Chrystia Freeland
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 09/24/2013
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780143124061
ISBN10: 0143124064
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Economics | General
About the Author
Chrystia Freeland is the managing editor and director of consumer news at Thomson Reuters and the author of Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution. She lives in New York City.