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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Chrystia Freeland)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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Freeland does a competent job laying out what modern inequality generally looks like. Many of the people she interviewed who were riding high in 20 12 are not now. She discusses that to day's rich largely are not rentiers. They made their own money rather than inheriting it, and they worked to keep it coming instead of clipping bond coupons.

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