Plutocrats : the rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else af Chrystia Freeland (Bog)

Sprog: Engelsk
Antal sider: 356
Forlag: Allen Lane
Udgivelsesår: 2012
Forget the 1 per cent- it's time to focus on the wealthiest 0.1 per cent who are outpacing the rest of use at breakneck speed. There has always been a gap between rich and poor, but over the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. What's changed is more than numbers. Instead of inheritance, today's colossal fortunes have been amassed by a new transglobal class of self-made oligarchs. But who are they and how did they do it - and as the chasm between the super-rich and everyone else deepens, is there anything we can do about it? Cracking open this tight-knit world is Chrystia Freeland. From Davos to Dubai, she has reported on these new super elites for the last two decade. Grounding her interviews in the economics and history of modern capitalism, Freeland shows us the new wealth and its consequences- whether it's the internal Citigroup memo that urges clients to design portfolios for the international 'Plutonomy' rather than nations, $3,000,000 banker's birthday parties or the extent of the discreet but phenomenal wealth of the 'red oligarchs', China's new ruling political class. A consummate journalist and industry specialist, Chrystia Freeland dissects the lives of the world's wealthiest individuals with intelligence, realism and deep insight. Alarmingly insightful and refreshingly non-partisan, Plutocratsis the missing piece in our political conversation.
Titel: Plutocrats : the rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else
Forfatter: Chrystia Freeland
Genre: historie_samfund
Sammendrag: Freeland kortlægger fremvæksten af en transnational klasse af ekstremt velhavende "plutokrater" i globaliseringens og finansialiseringens tidsalder. Hun viser, hvordan de største formuer ikke længere primært er arvet, men opbygget af entreprenører, finansfolk og virksomhedsledere, der udnytter global kapitalisme, teknologi og markedsreformer. Bogen følger disse superrige fra Davos til Dubai og forklarer de økonomiske mekanismer bag deres rigdom, herunder lønspredning i toppen, finanssektorens vækst og skattesystemer. Samtidig diskuteres de politiske og sociale følger: øget ulighed, politisk indflydelse til en lille økonomisk elite og pres på den traditionelle middelklasse. Bogen rejser spørgsmålet om, hvad denne udvikling betyder for fremtidens kapitalisme og demokrati, og hvilke mulige reformer der kan bremse kløften mellem top og bund.
Type: Hardcover