Plutocrats : the rise of the new global super-rich and the fall of everyone else

by Chrystia Freeland

Hardcover, 2012

Call number

305.5/234

Genres

Publication

New York : Penguin Press, 2012.

Description

A journalist and industry specialist for Reuters examines the growing disparity between the rich and the poor, taking a non-partisan look into the businesspeople who are amassing colossal fortunes and preferring the company of similar people around the world.

Subjects

Poor
Rich people Conduct of life

Awards

Orwell Prize (Longlist — 2013)
RBC Taylor Prize (Longlist — 2013)
National Business Book Award (Winner — 2013)
Spear's Book Award (Shortlist — Business — 2013)
Lionel Gelber Prize (Winner — 2013)
2 more
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (Social Sciences — 2012)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (Nonfiction — 2012)

DDC/MDS

305.5/234

Original publication date

2012

Physical description

xv, 330 p.; 25 cm

ISBN

9781594204098

Barcode

711

Language

English

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