Book description
Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0. 1% ...
There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has
never been wider - and now the rich are getting wealthier at such
breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out. While
the wealthiest 10% of Americans, for example, receive half the
nation's income, the real money flows even higher up, in the top 0.
1%. As a transglobal class of highly successful professionals, these
self-made oligarchs often have more in common with one another than
with their own countrymen. But how is this happening, and who are the
people making it happen?
Chrystia Freeland, acclaimed business journalist and Global
Editor-at-Large of Reuters, has unprecedented access to the richest
and most successful people on the planet, from Davos to Dubai, and
dissects their lives with intelligence, empathy and objectivity.
Pacily written and powerfully researched, Plutocrats could not
provide a more timely insight into the current state of Capitalism and
its most wealthy players.
'A superb piece of reportage ... a tremendous illumination' (New
Statesman on Freeland's previous title, Sale of the Century)
