Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

Name: Plutocrats The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
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ISBN: 9781594204098

ISBN-10: 1594204098

ISBN-13: 9781594204098

Edition: 2012

Authors: Chrystia Freeland

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A deeply researched and profoundly timely exposé of income inequalityAlarmingly insightful and refreshingly nonpartisan,PLUTOCRATS is the missing piece in our political conversation, a groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity. There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. While the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans now receive half the nation’s income—the largest percentage in our history—the real money flows even higher up. Forget the 1 percent; it’s the wealthiest .1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. What’s changed is more than numbers. Instead of…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/11/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298



Introduction



History and Why It Matters



Culture of the Plutocrats



Superstars



Responding to Revolution



Rent-Seeking



Plutocrats and the Rest of Us


Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index