Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

By Chrystia Freeland. Penguin, $27.95 (9781594204098).

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Freeland offers an engaging, deeply analytical look at the history, politics, and economics behind the rise of the super-elites, drawing parallels between current inequality and the Gilded Age of the late 1800s.

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