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Plutocrats
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else | Chrystia Freeland
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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.
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2.75 The subject matter is very interesting, but unfortunately not the delivery.

Chrystia Freeland throws a lot of names, a lot of anecdotes, covers a wide range of subjects and it makes the book quite chaotic... I would have loved a more organized book, perhaps one that would go deeper on some subjects: for example, deeper on the political and systemic mechanisms supporting the plutocrats, why not a more in-depth look at governmental corruption.

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LubicaP
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I was disappointed to learn that in order to have a chance to join the plutocrats' club, I should have earned my first million by the age of 25 :-) Anyway, this was an interesting book, especially the second half. Freeland shows what economic systems enable the rise of plutocrats and asks interesting questions about the extent to which big players should be allowed to shape the rules of the economy.

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