Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (61 page)

Piff, Paul, 239

Piketty, Thomas, 34, 43

Pimco, 65, 251

Pinchuk, Victor, 72–73, 268, 270

Pipes, Richard, 145

Pisarev, Kirill, 103

pivoting, 171–73

Platinum Study, 43

Pleading Guilty
(Turow), 38

Plepler, Richard, 72

Pliny the Elder, 195

Plutarch, 195

political influence, 222–24, 247, 260–62

political revolutions, 144–46

politicians, 76–79, 269–70

Polo, Marco, 278

Poore, Peter, 76

PopTech, 67

Porter, Michael, 23

Posner, Victor, 120, 122

Potanin, Vladimir, 151

Premji, Azim, 155

Prince, Chuck, 169–70

private equity, 120–22, 128, 190, 243, 280

privatization, 193–94, 205, 207, 222, 225

in Russia, 162–64, 176, 179–81, 188, 192–93, 198, 207, 218, 223, 225

telecom, 196–98

privilege, 239

transferred to children, 282–83

Progress and Poverty
(George), 38, 40–41

Progressive Era, 39, 78

Prokhorov, Mikhail, 162

Putin, Vladimir, 80, 107, 149–51, 255

Qiu Ying, 96

Quantum Fund, 142, 143, 154, 172

Queen Elisabeth Competition, 126

Quiggin, John, 48

Radia, Niira, 200

railroads, 178, 191

Raja, Andimuthu, 200

Rajan, Raghuram, 188–89, 198, 201, 228

Rajaratnam, Raj, 121–22

Rakoff, Jed, 256

Rand, Ayn, 249

Rauh, Joshua, 119–20

Ravid, Abraham, 130

Reagan, Ronald, 17, 89

Reagan Revolution, xii

real estate, 222–23

Red Capitalism
(Walter and Howie), 207–8

Reformed Broker, The,
84

Reich, Robert, 3

Renaissance, 96

Renaissance Capital, 65, 159

rentier elite, 42, 43, 283

rent-seeking, 188–228, 283

in China, 204–10

globalization and, 226–28

in India, 198–200, 228

value creation vs., 280–81

Reshef, Ariell, 48, 220–21

revolutions, 141–87

industrial,
see
industrial revolution

political, 144–46

in technology, xiv, 4, 14–15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 28, 30–31, 67, 100, 104, 146, 157–58, 164, 166, 184, 221, 285

Reynolds, Joshua, 94

“rich,” use of word, x

Roach, Stephen, 210

robber barons, xv, 9, 19, 41, 42, 71, 118, 134, 191, 195, 237

Roosevelt on, 177–78

Robertson, Julian, 142

Robinson, James, 279–80

Rockefeller, John D., 195

Rodriguez, Alex, 108–9

Rolls-Royce, 46

Romney, Mitt, 77, 92–94, 236, 237, 286

as empiricist, 93–94

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 132

Commonwealth Club speech of, 176–78

New Deal of, 13–14, 132–34, 177

Roosevelt, Theodore, 39

Rose, Charlie, 72

Rosen, Sherwin, 97, 99–100, 107–12, 116, 123

Rosoff, Matt, 238

Royal Bank of Canada, 217

Royal Bank of Scotland, 217

Rubenstein, David, 121, 148–49

Rubin, Bob, 213

Russia, 3, 14, 19, 35, 56, 62, 66, 82, 96, 148, 149, 159–61, 163, 164, 178–81, 186, 206, 260

billionaire-to-GDP ratio in, 189

Bolsheviks in, 14, 93, 145, 284

privatization in, 162–64, 176, 179–81, 188, 192–93, 198, 207, 218, 223, 225

Revolution in, 152–53

science and technology in, 178–79

Russian oligarchs, 42, 46, 51–52, 61–62, 72, 92, 107, 147, 149–52, 186, 193, 196, 223, 255, 285

Ryan, Paul, 83, 190

Sabharwal, Manish, 32

Saez, Emmanuel, xiii, 34, 35–36, 43, 117, 281

Saïd, Wafic, 62

Sainath, Palagummi, 32

Saint Laurent, Yves, 114–16

Salganik, Matthew, 126

Salinas, Carlos, 196, 198

Salomon Brothers, 130

Sandberg, Sheryl, 174–75

Santorum, Rick, 246

Sawiris, Naguib, 4, 35, 77

Say’s law, 30–31

Schiff, Peter, 245

Schmidt, Eric, 56, 58, 69, 104–5, 236, 238, 280–81

Schmidt, Jacqueline, 70

Schrage, Elliot, 47

Schultz, Howard, 69

Schumer, Chuck, 211–13, 227

Schumpeter, Joseph, 32, 118

Schwarzman, Steve, 1, 36–37, 45, 46, 60, 147, 237, 243

science, 123–25

screenplays, 128

Seasteading Institute, 250

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 226, 256

self-interest, 178, 215, 216, 239–40, 243–44, 249, 273–75, 286

Sennett, Mack, 98

Sense and Sensibility
(Austen), 274–75

sewing machine, 113–15

Shaw, George Bernard, 39

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 89

Shubrick,
40

Silicon Valley, 46–47, 56, 93, 163–64, 166, 171, 174, 175, 181–83, 230–31, 235, 236, 238, 283, 285

Silver Lake, 59

Simmons, Ruth, 284

Singapore, 63

Singer, Paul, 77

Singh, Manmohan, 155, 198–99

Sinha, Jayant, 189

skill-biased technical change, 91

skimming, 138

Slim, Carlos, 42, 46, 51, 195–98, 199, 218, 227, 236, 255

Smith, Adam, 67, 131, 138, 194, 229

Smith, Art, 112

Smith, Michael, 102

social mobility, 5, 82, 278–79

income inequality and, 283–84

Socialnet, 183

Somoza family, 191

Sorensen, Alan, 126

Soros, George, 53–54, 70, 73, 77, 141–45, 147, 148, 152–55, 172–73, 242

Soros, Jonathan, 153, 173

Soros, Tivadar, 152–53

South Korea, 32, 193

Soviet republics, former, 20, 77, 149, 155, 192, 193, 267

Soviet Union, 14, 17, 89–90, 144, 155, 178–80, 266

Spectator,
56–57, 59, 67

Spence, Michael, 20, 187

Spitzer, Eliot, 213

Splinter, Michael, 64