The Rise of the New Global Super Rich
Outrageous fortunes abound in this absorbing study of the world’s wealthiest men
By Ian Birrell, The Guardian
There has always been a gap between rich and poor but this is just one sign of how the gulf has widened into a chasm over the past few decades. Creaming off more and more wealth is a new elite, a transglobal class of mainly self-made men carving out unimaginable fortunes. They are the subject of this timely and absorbing analysis by former Financial Times deputy editor Chrystia Freeland.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/01/plutocrats-super-rich-freeland-review
For more on the specifically Georgist elements in Chrystia Feeland’s book, see the next item in this month’s The Georgist News.
To buy the book: http://www.amazon.com/Plutocrats-Rise-Global-Super-Rich-Everyone/dp/1594204098
I bought and read Chrystia’s book. Her dad, Don Freeland, is a long-time Georgist from the Edmonton area; her grandad, Wilbur Freeland, was one before him. The apple did not fall far from the tree! But Chrystia grew quickly into a celebrity journalist. Let us embrace her with our full support!