Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances

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Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back

by Oliver Bullough  · 5 Sep 2018  · 364pp  · 112,681 words

. And then they thought some more, and read some more, and inspiration came: which they revealed to the world in an October 2005 report entitled ‘Plutonomy, Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances’. The footnotes to the report are packed full of works by academics who were then or who have since become heroes to the political left

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

by Chrystia Freeland  · 11 Oct 2012  · 481pp  · 120,693 words

in my life” CF interview with Naguib Sawiris, November 18, 2011. “the World is dividing into two blocs” Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh, “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances,” Citigroup Global Markets Equity Strategy report, October 16, 2005. “The U.S. stock markets and the U.S. economy” James Freeman, “The Bullish Case for

Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School for two years before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy. “Dopamine, a pleasure-inducing” Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh, “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances,” Citigroup Global Markets Equity Strategy report, October 16, 2005. “I recognize that sometimes survival requires a positive effort” CF interviews with George Soros, May 2009

The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy

by Dr. Jim Taylor  · 9 Sep 2008  · 256pp  · 15,765 words

attitudes of the wealthy are more likely those of mainstream Americans than one might have anticipated. Notes 1. Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh, ‘‘Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances,’’ research report, Citigroup Global Markets, http://www.billcara.com/archives/ Citi%20Oct%2016,%202005%20Plutonomy.pdf (accessed April 14, 2008). 2. Daniel Gross, ‘‘Don’t

How Will Capitalism End?

by Wolfgang Streeck  · 8 Nov 2016  · 424pp  · 115,035 words

better, as too many people are stuck in low-pay employment. See ‘Companies urged to spread benefits widely’, Financial Times, 30 December 2013. 38Citigroup Research, ‘Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances’, 16 October 2005; Citigroup Research, ‘Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer’, 5 March 2006. 39Nota bene that capitalism is about profit, not about productivity. While

Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis

by David Boyle  · 15 Jan 2014  · 367pp  · 108,689 words

./Feb. 2012. [24] William K. Carroll, The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate power in the 21st century (London, Zed Books, 2010). [25] Citigroup, ‘Plutonomy: Buying luxury, explaining global imbalances’, 15 Oct. 2005, quoted in Edward Fulbrook (2012), ‘The political economy of bubbles’, Real World Economics Review, no. 59. [26] Ferdinand Mount, ‘The new few

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

by Daniel Markovits  · 14 Sep 2019  · 976pp  · 235,576 words

-restaurants-in-washington-is-about-to-increase-its-prices/?utm_term=.3884ea4ce2ca. “ways of expropriating wealth”: Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh, “Equity Strategy: Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances,” Citigroup, Industry Note, October 16, 2005, accessed July 23, 2018, https://delong.typepad.com/plutonomy-1.pdf. I borrow the term “income defense” from Winters

Who Stole the American Dream?

by Hedrick Smith  · 10 Sep 2012  · 598pp  · 172,137 words

: Crown Publishing Group, 2007), 3. 4 “It is absolutely excessive” Matthew Symonds, “Absolutely Excessive,” Vanity Fair, October 2005. 5 WELCOME TO THE PLUTONOMY MACHINE Citigroup, “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances,” October 16, 2005. 6 “The rich now dominate” Citigroup, “Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer,” March 6, 2006, http://​www.​ifg.​org. 7 A wealthy

Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

by Wolfgang Streeck  · 1 Jan 2013  · 353pp  · 81,436 words

’s private banking department that their future prosperity would depend, as in the Keynesian world, on the material welfare of the broad masses (Citigroup Research, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances, 16 October 2005; Citigroup Research, Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer, 5 March 2006). 13 Against the advice of any number of people who claimed

., ‘Introduction’, in Francis G. Castles et al. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 1–15. Citigroup Research, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances, 16 October 2005. ———. Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer, 5 March 2006. Citrin, Jack, ‘Do People Want Something for Nothing? Public Opinion on Taxes and

Who Rules the World?

by Noam Chomsky

August 2011. 28. Louis Uchitelle, “Job Insecurity of Workers Is a Big Factor in Fed Policy,” New York Times, 27 February 1997. 29. Ajay Kapur, “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances,” 16 October 2005, as found at http://delong.typepad.com/plutonomy-1.pdf. 30. Noam Chomsky, Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (San

Hopes and Prospects

by Noam Chomsky  · 1 Jan 2009

://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/carter. 25. Pete Engardio, “Can the Future Be Built in America?” Business Week, September 21, 2009. 26. Citigroup, “Equity Strategy, Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances,” October 16, 2005; “Equity Strategy, Revisiting Plutonomy: The Rich Getting Richer,” March 5, 2006. “Why Service Stinks,” Business Week, October 23, 2000. 27. Wall Street

The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality Is Essential for Recovery

by Stewart Lansley  · 19 Jan 2012  · 223pp  · 10,010 words

Londongrad: From Russia With Cash; The Inside Story of the Oligarchs

by Mark Hollingsworth and Stewart Lansley  · 22 Jul 2009  · 471pp  · 127,852 words

Occupy

by Noam Chomsky  · 2 Jan 1994  · 75pp  · 22,220 words

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna  · 4 Mar 2008  · 537pp  · 158,544 words