Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust - Rilegato

West, Darrell M.

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ISBN 10: 0815725825 ISBN 13: 9780815725824

Casa editrice: Brookings Inst Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Meet the Billionaires: the 1,645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know.

With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson, Michael Bloomberg, David and Charles Koch, George Soros, Tom Steyer, and Donald Trump—as well as international billionaires from around the globe.

The growing political engagement of this small supra-wealthy group raises important questions about influence, transparency, and government performance, and West lays bare the wealthification of politics, including:

· How billionaires can block appointments and legislation they don't like

· Why the supra-wealthy moved into policy advocacy and referenda at the state level

· Why billionaires run for office in more than a dozen countries around the world

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Recensione:

"F. Scott Fitzgerald taught us that the very rich are different from the rest of us. Now Darrell West has taken us on a thoughtful romp through the world of our new billionaire class. At a moment when we have read both glorifications and denunciations of those with unimaginably large fortunes, West has set out to understand and explain who they are and what they do. He couples a moral concern for the cost of rising inequality with a scholar's commitment to telling the story straight. This is both an important book and a good read." --E.J. Dionne, Georgetown University

L'autore:

Darrell M. West is the vice president of Governance Studies and the director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings. He is the author of 19 books on American politics and the recipient of several book awards.

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• Editore: Brookings Inst Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0815725825
• ISBN 13: 9780815725824
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 269