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

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by Chrystia Freeland


  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 4, 43

  Flaherty, Jim, 217

  Flickr, 172

  Flip, 174

  Fogg, B. J., 165

  Forbes, 34, 45, 85, 108, 119, 148, 193, 195, 198, 208, 266–67

  Ford, Edsel, 263

  Ford, Henry, 168, 262, 285

  Ford, Henry, II, 262–64

  Ford Foundation, 262–63

  Ford Motor Company, 262, 263

  Forstmann, Teddy, 58

  foundations, 72, 264, 265

  Fox, Vicente, 197

  France, 3, 273

  Frank, Barney, 260

  Frank, Robert, 82

  Freddie Mac, 271

  Fridman, Mikhail, 107, 150, 151

  Friedlander, David, 70

  Friedman, Milton, 250, 277

  Friess, Foster, 246–47

  Fuentes, Pablo, 172

  Fuld, Dick, 144, 215, 216

  Gabaix, Xavier, 137

  Gadhafi, Saif, 215, 227

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 133–35

  Game Neverending, 172

  Gandhi, Indira, 200

  Gartman, Dennis, 248–49

  Gates, Bill, 3, 43, 70, 74–76, 190, 195, 235–36, 246, 247, 280, 282

  Gates Foundation, 74–76

  Gawker, 70

  geeks, 46–51, 92, 94

  Gehry, Frank, 103–4

  Geithner, Tim, 258

  General Electric (GE), 26, 63–64, 65, 155, 157–58

  General Motors (GM), 187, 255

  George, Henry, xv, 38–42, 47

  Germany, 3, 35, 77–78

  Ghonim, Wael, 80

  Gilded Age, 3, 6–14, 19–21, 28–29, 31, 32, 40, 44, 47, 78, 114, 117

  robber barons in, see robber barons

  Gilded Age, The (Twain and Warner), 6–7, 13

  Ginsburgh, Victor, 126

  Gladwell, Malcolm, 110–11

  Glass-Steagall Act, 13, 264

  global citizens, 59–61, 65, 67

  globalization, xiv, 4, 15, 18, 19, 21, 25, 27, 31, 59–60, 64, 91, 102, 104, 157–58, 184, 221, 240, 285

  events and destinations and, 58

  O’Neill on, 29–30

  rent-seeking and, 226–28

  superstars and, 91–92, 108

  Goldbart, Stephen, 176

  Goldin, Claudia, 47, 82, 85, 218, 221

  Goldman Sachs, 2, 18–19, 30, 52, 121–22, 147, 158, 170, 213, 252, 253, 266, 271, 272, 284, 286–87

  Gompers, Samuel, 42

  Google, 47, 55–56, 69, 100, 104, 158, 171, 175, 176, 236, 238

  Zeitgeist conference of, 68–69

  Goos, Maarten, 24

  Gopalakrishnan, Kris, 201–2, 241

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, 51–52, 180

  Graham, Carol, 31, 51, 82

  Great Compression, xii, 104

  Great Depression, xiii, 9, 13, 29, 115

  Great Gatsby Curve, 283

  Green, Michael, 71

  Greenberg, Hank, 101, 102

  Greenspan, Alan, 5–6, 112, 229, 256, 257

  Grehan, Ray, 103

  Griffin, Ken, 42–43, 51, 247–48, 261, 282

  Griffith, Keith, 50–51

  Groupon, 51, 164, 171, 176

  Grove, Andy, 286

  Growth Map, The: Economic Opportunity in the BRICs and Beyond (O’Neill), 19, 29–30

  Groysberg, Boris, 129

  Grubman, Jack, 48

  Guerrero, Isabel, 197

  Gu Kailai, 209, 210

  Gupta, Rajat, 121–22

  Gusinsky, Vladimir, 151

  Hacker, Jacob, 18

  Hall, Andrew, 121

  Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, Sheikh, 103

  Hanson, Gordon, 23–24, 27

  happiness, 31–32, 51, 82

  Harris, Robert, 229

  Harvard Business Review, 117, 131, 133, 267

  Harvard Crimson, 268

  Harvard University, 49–50, 82, 85–86, 92, 131, 147, 148, 218–19, 221, 226, 233, 234, 267–68

  Haydn, Joseph, 94–95

  Hayek, Friedrich, 88

  Hazare, Anna, 80, 200

  health care, 76

  hedge funds, 2, 51, 74, 120, 121, 128, 138, 266

  Heritage Foundation, 190

  Hernández, Roberto, 196

  Herzen, Alexander, xiv

  Hewitt, Abram, 39

  Hewlett, Bill, 56

  Hewlett-Packard (HP), 187

  Hindery, Leo, 270

  Hindoo, 39–40

  Hirschorn, Michael, 165

  Hoffman, Reid, 141, 181–85, 187

  Holbrooke, Richard, 69

  Holocaust, 152–53

  Hölzle, Urs, 171

  Hong Kong, 35, 63

  Hoogewerf, Rupert, 62, 205

  Howie, Fraser, 207–8

  Hsieh, Tony, 69, 173, 230, 231, 233–34

  Huang Guangyu, 208

  Hubbard, Glenn, 213

  Huffington Post, 70

  humanities, 267

  Huntsman, Jon, 209, 243

  Hurun Report, 204–5, 208

  Hutchins, Glenn, 59

  Iacocca, Lee, 262

  IBM, 155, 180, 187

  idea conferences, 67–70, 72

  ideological vs. evidence-based worldviews, 93–94

  Igan, Deniz, 222, 223

  Immelt, Jeff, 63–64, 245

  immigration, 61, 147

  inclusive societies, 279–81, 283–85

  income:

  of average family in U.S., 34

  of bankers, 218–21, 259

  capital gains, 17, 44, 78, 79

  comparing across history, 194–95

  in economic recovery of 2009–2010, xiii

  happiness and, 31–32

  national, 1 percent’s share of, 3, 14

  of superstars vs. everyone else, 100–101

  of top 0.01 percent, 44

  see also wages

  India, xiii, 3, 10, 15–16, 19, 21–22, 28, 30, 32–33, 35, 62–63, 66, 80, 92, 146, 149, 155–59, 186, 188–89, 193–94, 197–203, 266, 267

  billionaire-to-GDP ratio in, 189, 199

  corruption in, 201–2

  GDP in, 199

  License Raj in, 198–99

  rent-seeking in, 198–200, 228

  Indian Institute of Technology, 188

  industrial revolution, 8–16, 19–22, 29, 40–42, 50, 67, 146, 164, 178

  Luddites and, 12–13, 96–97

  mass production in, 99

  superstars and, 95–99, 118

  Infosys, 201

  Ingersoll, Robert, 42

  Innovator’s Dilemma, The (Christensen), 145

  Inside Job, 270

  insider trading, 269

  Institute of International Finance, 254

  intellectuals, 89–94, 110–11

  Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power, The (Konrád and Szelényi), 89–90, 136

  interior designers, 102

  International Monetary Fund (IMF), 144, 188, 189, 217, 222, 252–53

  Internet, 100, 108, 109, 126, 146, 165, 176, 182

  iPhone, 28

  iPod, 24–26

  Ireland, 32

  Israel, 3

  Italy, 96

  Japan, 35, 64

  Jefferson, Thomas, 11–12, 42

  Jennings, Stephen, 65–66, 159–62, 168–69, 173

  Jensen, Michael, 133–34

  JetBlue, 156

  Jobs, Steve, 49, 55, 190, 246, 280

  John, Elton, 109, 110

  Johnson, Boris, 57, 69

  Johnson, Pitch, 56, 178

  Johnson, Simon, 189

  Jones, Alfred Winslow, 120–22

  JPMorgan, 253–55, 257–58, 260

  Kadyrov, Ramzan, 110

  Kagalovsky, Konstantin, 223

  Kahneman, Daniel, 69

  Kalyani, B. N., 241

  Kaplan, Jonathan, 174, 176

  Kaplan, Steven, 119–20

  Kathwari, Farooq, 185–87

  Katz, Lawrence, xii, 47, 82, 85, 218, 221

&nbs
p; Katzenberg, Jeffrey, 127–30

  Kaufmann, Dani, 223–25

  Kennedy, Caroline, 72

  Kenny, Robert, x

  Kensington Palace, 74

  Khade, Ashok, 45

  Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 77, 107, 162, 163, 196, 236–37

  Kim, Vladimir, 103

  KKR, 122

  Klebahn, Perry, 171–72

  Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, 183

  knowledge economy, 117–19

  Koch, David and Charles, 77, 247

  Kohn, Donald, 256, 257

  Kollontai, Alexandra, 86

  Komorowski, Bronislaw, 72

  Konrád, György, 89–90, 136, 266

  Kovalyev, Sergei, 188

  Kraemer, Kenneth, 24–26

  Kravis, Henry, 69

  Kravis, Marie-Josée, 69

  Kristol, Irving, 264–67

  Krueger, Alan, 91, 110, 283

  Kryvorizhstal, 191–93

  Kudrin, Alexei, 72

  Kumar, Anil, 121

  Kummer, Corby, 112–13

  Kuznets, Simon, xi

  Kuznets curve, xi–xii

  Lady Gaga, 104, 108–10

  Lai Changxing, 156, 162

  Lall, Rajiv, 201

  Landier, Augustin, 137

  lawyers, 101–2, 105–7, 111, 118–19

  layoffs, 186–87

  LCH Investments, 142

  Lehman Brothers, 122, 142, 143, 169, 215, 216

  Lemieux, Thomas, 48

  Lenin, V. I., 86, 93

  Levchin, Max, 183

  Levy, Frank, 17

  Levy, Gus, 286–87

  Lewis, Michael, 69, 129

  Li, Stella, 32–33

  Libya, 215

  Lightyear Capital, 142

  Lin, Alfred, 233–34

  Lin, Jeremy, 140

  Lincoln, Abraham, 39

  Lincoln, William, 98

  Linden, Greg, 24–26

  Lindert, Peter, 12, 16, 43

  Lindsay, Michael, 43

  LinkedIn, 141, 183–85

  LinkExchange, 234

  Li Peng, 208

  Lithuania, 149

  Li Xiaolin, 208

  Li Xiaopeng, 208

  LLC Smart Group, 191

  Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award, 181

  lobbying, 222–24, 247, 260–62, 273

  Loeb, Dan, 242

  London, City of, 211, 214, 217, 218, 219, 227

  London School of Economics, 227

  London Whale, 260

  Long Depression, 7, 9, 41

  long tail, 100, 126–27

  López-Calva, Luis-Felipe, 197

  Lora, Eduardo, 31

  Los Angeles Times, 76

  lucky job club, 175–76

  Luddites, 12–13, 96–97

  Ludicorp, 172

  Lu Guanqiu, 204

  Lumière, Louis and Auguste, 98

  Luxos, 46

  luxury goods and services, 102, 104, 106

  Mac 400 electrocardiograph, 157–58

  Macpherson, Elle, 74

  Maddison, Angus, 8–9, 16

  Madonna, 107

 

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