Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (62 page)

sports stars, 108–9, 129, 130, 138

Stalin, Joseph, 20, 90

Stanford Business School, 61, 147

Starr International, 101

Start-Up of You, The
(Hoffman), 184–85, 187

Stengel, Rick, 72

Stephenson, Randall, 164, 185–86

Stevenson, Betsey, 32

Stewart, Rod, 36

Stiglitz, Joe, 27

Stock Market Boys, 51

Stoll, Craig, 112–13

Strauss-Kahn, Dominique, 72, 238–39

Stringer, Howard, 36

student activism, 268

Sull, Donald, 145, 147, 167–68, 171

Summers, Larry, xiii, 49, 87, 165, 174

Sunstein, Cass, 93

Sun Valley, 68

Sun Yat-sen, 39

superstars, 88–140

fees charged by, 101–3

globalization and, 91–92, 108

income of, vs. everyone else, 100–101

industrial revolution and, 95–99, 118

and talent vs. capital, 116–17, 122, 129–30

technology and, 91–92, 98–100, 108, 109

“Sustaining New York’s and the US’ Global Financial Services Leadership,” 211–15

Swank, Hilary, 110

Sweden, xii, 3, 12

Switzerland, 35, 63

Szelényi, Ivan, 89–90, 136, 266

Tahrir Square, 80

Taiwan, 35

Tawney, R. H., 88

taxes, 5, 14, 17, 78–79, 190, 243, 246–47, 249, 255, 264, 286

TeamLease, 32

Tea Party, 28, 42, 92

technology:

communication, 99–100

race between education and, 47–48

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

skill-biased change in, 91

superstars and, 91–92, 98–100, 108, 109

TED conference, 68

telecommunications, 224, 225

privatization in, 196–98

Telmex, 196–98, 218, 225

Temin, Peter, 17

Tencent, 66

Thain, John, 36, 102, 214–16

Thatcher, Margaret, 17

Theory of Moral Sentiments, The
(Smith), 229

Thiel, Peter, 183, 250

think tanks, 72, 77, 265, 267

Thornton, John, 213

Tiger Management, 142

Tinbergen, Jan, 47

Tito, Josip Broz, 89–90

Tocqueville, Alexis de, xi, 12

Tolstoy, Leo, 39

“Top Executives Are Worth Every Nickel They Get” (Murphy), 131–33

topple rate, 173

Touati, Bernard, 107

travel, 52–53, 58, 60–61

Treasury bills, 265

Treaty of Detroit, 17, 18

Tressel, Thierry, 222

Trichet, Jean-Claude, 141

Trollope, Anthony, 99

Turkey, 21, 35, 197

Turnaround Kid, The
(Miller), 27

Turow, Scott, 38, 52, 61

Tutu, Desmond, 69

Twain, Mark, 8, 38

The Gilded Age,
6–7, 13

Twitter, 109, 146, 171

Tymoshenko, Yulia, 192

U2, 109, 110

UBS, 16

Ukraine, 72–73, 79–80, 191–93

unemployment, 186–87, 238, 240, 265

Ungaro, Emanuel, 116

unions, 17, 33, 91, 286

United Auto Workers (UAW), 17

universities, 264, 267

University of Chicago, 188

USA Today,
2

U.S. Steel, 195

van Ours, Jan, 126

Van Reenen, John, 23, 28, 29, 81, 136

Vardi, Yossi, 68

Varshney, Ashutosh, 28, 155–56

Vekselberg, Viktor, 150, 151, 176, 180, 181

Venice, 277–80, 282–84, 286

La Serrata in, 279, 280, 283, 286

venture capital, 120, 121

Victoria, Queen, 8

video technology, 165, 174

Volcker, Paul, 64–65, 219, 221

von Furstenberg, Diane, 107

von Metternich, Pauline, 114

wages, 240

college education and, 47–48

minimum, 17, 91

see also
income

Wall Street, 53, 63, 83–84, 93, 105, 119–22, 129–30, 166–67, 211–16, 218, 219, 221, 222, 235, 257, 267

lobbying and, 222–24, 247, 260–62, 273

regulation of, 211–12

Wall Street,
2, 152

Wall Street Journal,
56, 144, 211, 213, 223

Walt Disney Company, 127–30, 143

Walter, Carl, 207–8

Walton, Michael, 197

Wang Huiyao, 60–61

Wang Jianlin, 204

Warburg, Siegmund, 119

Wareham, Jamie, 106

Warner, Charles Dudley, 13

Warner Music, 170–71

Washington Consensus, 17–18

Washington Post,
125

Washington State, 235

Watson, James, 124

Watts, Duncan, 126

Waugh, Rick, 254–55

Wealth of Nations, The
(Smith), 67, 131

Weill, Sandy, 48

Weinberg, Peter, 170

Weizmann, Chaim, 124, 125

Welch, Jack, 64, 130

Wen Jiabao, 205–6, 210

Whitehall Study, 54

Who Is to Blame?
(Herzen), xiv

Wien, Byron, 142

Williams, Robin, 127

Williamson, Jeffrey, 12

Wilson, Charlie, 255, 258, 272

Wilson, Thomas, 64

Winfrey, Oprah, 112

Winner-Take-All Politics
(Hacker and Pierson), 18

Winters, Jeffrey, 78, 79, 81

Wipro, 155

Wolf, Martin, 69

Wolfers, Justin, 32

women, 84–87, 218–19

Wood, Graeme, 175–76

WorkerExpress, 172

working rich, 42–46, 52–53, 117, 235, 283

World Bank, 32, 224, 252–53

World Economic Forum, 68, 73, 75, 103, 167

“World Is Changing, The: Some Thoughts on Our Business” (Katzenberg), 127, 130

World War II, 29

Worth, Charles, 113–14, 116

Wu Yajun, 207

Yahoo!, 172

Yale Daily News,
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