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The rich : from slaves to super-yachts : a 2,000-year history / John Kampfner.
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9781408704271 (paperback)
9781408704264 (hardback)
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Kampfner, John
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The rich : from slaves to super-yachts : a 2,000-year history / John Kampfner.
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London : Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
©2014
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xxv, 454 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This is the fascinating history of how economic elites from ancient Egypt to the present day have gained and spent their money. Starting with the Romans and Ancient Egypt and culminating with the oligarchies of modern Russia and China, it compares and contrasts the rich and powerful down the ages and around the world. What unites them? Have the same instincts of entrepreneurship, ambition, vanity, greed and philanthropy applied throughout? As contemporary politicians, economists and the public wrestle with the inequities of our time - the parallel world inhabited by the ultra-wealthy at a time of broader hardship - it is salutary to look to history for explanations. This book synthesises thousands of years of human behaviour and asks the question: is the development of the globalised super-rich over the past twenty years anything new?
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Rich people
Wealth
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Capital
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Millionaires
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