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Billionaires : Reflections on the Upper Crust

Washington DC : Brookings Institution Press, 2014 [©2014.]

1 online resource (283 pages)

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Front Cover; Inside Flap; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; The Controversy over Billionaires; Part 1: Billionaire Activism; Can Rich Dudes Buy an Election?; Referendum Campaigns and Policy Advocacy; New Models of Philanthropy; Elections Abroad; Part 2: It Takes a Village to Make a Fortune; The Global 1,645; Innovative Ideas; Not a One-Person Act; Part 3: What Can Be Done?; Better Transparency, Governance, and Opportunity; Hope for the Future; Acknowledgments; Appendix; Notes; Index; Back Cover

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978-0-8157-2581-7

978-0-8157-2582-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

796920508

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Wealth ; Wealth -- Political aspects ; Rich people -- Political activity ; Billionaires ; Equality

Billionaires ; Equality ; Rich people ; Political activity ; Wealth ; Political aspects ; Wealth ; Electronic books

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 Trump—as 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: • How billionaires can block appointments and legislation they don't like • Why the supra-wealthy moved into policy advocacy and referenda at the state level • Why billionaires run for office in more than a dozen countries around the world.

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Front Cover -- Inside Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- The Controversy over Billionaires -- Part 1: Billionaire Activism -- Can Rich Dudes Buy an Election? -- Referendum Campaigns and Policy Advocacy -- New Models of Philanthropy -- Elections Abroad -- Part 2: It Takes a Village to Make a Fortune -- The Global 1,645 -- Innovative Ideas -- Not a One-Person Act -- Part 3: What Can Be Done? -- Better Transparency, Governance, and Opportunity -- Hope for the Future -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.