Billionaires
Meet the Billionaires: the 1, 645 men and women who control a massive share of global assets worth $6.5 trillion. Darrell West reveals what the other 99.99998% of us need to know. With rich anecdotes and personal narratives, West goes inside the world of the ultra wealthy. Meet U.S. billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson, Michael Bloomberg, David and Charles Koch, George Soros, Tom Steyer, and Donald Trumpaas well as international billionaires from around the globe. The growing political engagement of this small supra-wealthy group raises important questions about influence, transparency, and government performance, and West lays bare the wealthification of politics, including: ac How billionaires can block appointments and legislation they donat like ac Why the supra-wealthy moved into policy advocacy and referenda at the state level ac Why billionaires run for office in more than a dozen countries around the worldOne lesson that stands out among those offered by the careers of many billionaires isthe importance of overcoming ... into the 2000s, when the company moved into cloud computing with Amazon Web Services and Kindle book readers.
| Title | : | Billionaires |
| Author | : | Darrell West |
| Publisher | : | Brookings Institution Press - 2014-09-18 |
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