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Author: Francis Teal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-03-24
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0198870140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Poor and the Plutocrats is an examination of financial inequality. From Apple, the first trillion-dollar company, at one end of the spectrum to those living in dire poverty on the other, Francis Teal explains how a world has emerged where both of these extremes co-exist.
Author: Chrystia Freeland
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1101595949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Ronald P. Formisano
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1421417405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis data-driven book offers insight into the fallacy of widespread opportunity, the fate of the middle class, and the mechanisms that perpetuate income disparity.
Author: Caroline Freund
Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economics
Published: 2016-02-11
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0881327042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike the robber barons of the 19th century Gilded Age, a new and proliferating crop of billionaires is driving rapid development and industrialization in poor countries. The accelerated industrial growth spurs economic prosperity for some, but it also widens the gap between the super rich and the rest of the population, especially the very poor. In Rich People Poor Countries, Caroline Freund identifies and analyzes nearly 700 emerging-market billionaires whose net worth adds up to more than $2 trillion. Freund finds that these titans of industry are propelling poor countries out of their small-scale production and agricultural past and into a future of multinational industry and service-based mega firms. And more often than not, the new billionaires are using their newfound acumen to navigate the globalized economy, without necessarily relying on political connections, inheritance, or privileged access to resources. This story of emerging-market billionaires and the global businesses they create dramatically illuminates the process of industrialization in the modern world economy.
Author: Maurus Jókai
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781407618791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard L. Hasen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-01-12
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0300216742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCampaign financing is one of today’s most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right protests that the real aim of campaign limits is to suppress political activity and protect incumbents. Meanwhile, money flows freely on both sides. In Plutocrats United, Richard Hasen argues that both left and right avoid the key issue of the new Citizens United era: balancing political inequality with free speech. The Supreme Court has long held that corruption and its appearance are the only reasons to constitutionally restrict campaign funds. Progressives often agree but have a much broader view of corruption. Hasen argues for a new focus and way forward: if the government is to ensure robust political debate, the Supreme Court should allow limits on money in politics to prevent those with great economic power from distorting the political process.
Author: Milford Wriarson Howard
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mór Jókai
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Published: 1899
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mór Jókai
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-10
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Poor Plutocrats' also often referred to as 'The Poor Rich' is an adventure-mystery novel by Mór Jókai. The story centers on a conflict between a number of families and a group of bandits led by Fatia Negra.
Author: Chrystia Freeland
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0385669720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
