The Rich
From Slaves to Super-Yachts: A 2,000-Year History
From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The Rich is the fascinating history of how economic elites from ancient Egypt to the present day have gained and spent their money.Starting with the Romans and Ancient Egypt and culminating with the oligarchies of modern Russia and China, it compares and contrasts the rich and powerful down the ages and around the world. What unites them? Have the same instincts of entrepreneurship, ambition, vanity, greed and philanthropy applied throughout?As contemporary politicians, economists and the public wrestle with the inequities of our time - the parallel world inhabited by the ultra-wea…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4055-1973-1
- EAN: 9781405519731
- Produktnummer: 22594565
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 480 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'369 KB
- Abbildungen: b/w photo plate section 16pp (2 x 8pp)
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John Kampfner
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