Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (57 page)

Bertrand, Marianne, 138–40

Bharat Light and Power, 158–59

Bharti Enterprises, 66

Bieber, Justin, 109

Bierstadt, Albert, 171

big data, 146, 165–66

Bilderberg Group, 68

Billington, Elizabeth, 94–100, 108, 109, 114

Bishop, Matthew, 71–72

Bismarck, Otto von, 141

Black, Leon, 110, 142

BlackRock, 5, 166

Blackstone, 1, 45, 60, 70, 111, 147

Blankfein, Lloyd, 121, 147, 249, 253, 254, 280

Blavatnik, Len, 62, 171

Bloomberg, Michael, 36, 69, 77, 211–14, 227, 244

Bloomberg L.P., 235

BNP Paribas, 141, 211

Boao Forum, 68

Bobergh, Otto Gustav, 113, 114

Bo Guagua, 209

Bohr, Niels, 124

Boies, David, 101–2, 105, 106

Bolsheviks, 14, 93, 145, 284

Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 188–89, 198, 201, 228

Bon Jovi, 109, 110

books, bestselling, 126

Booz Allen Hamilton, 112

Bo Xilai, 203, 209–10

Bo Yibo, 209

Brandeis, Louis, 277

Brazil, 3, 19, 35, 54, 149, 156–57, 194, 198

Brezhnev, Leonid, 89

BRICs, 3, 18–20, 21, 30

see also
Brazil; China; India; Russia

Bridgestone, 168

Broad, Eli, 71, 72

Brown, Gordon, 214

Brown, Joshua, 84

Brown University, 284

Buffett, Warren, 3, 75, 79, 129–30, 143, 175, 282

Buiter, Willem, 256–57, 270, 271

Bundy, McGeorge, 263

Bunshaft, Gordon, 103–4

Burda, Hubert, 68

Bush, George H. W., 148

Bush, George W., 214, 260–61

Business Insider,
238

Busson, Arpad, 74

Butterfield, Stewart, 172

BYD, 32–33

Byers, Brook, 183

Cable, Vince, 139

Calderón, Felipe, 255

Cameron, David, 57

Canada, 216–17, 253

Candy and Candy, 102–3

capital:

labor vs., 117

talent vs., 116–17, 122, 129–30

capital gains, 17, 44, 78, 79

Cardin, Pierre, 116

Carlyle Group, 121, 148

Carnegie, Andrew, ix, 9–11, 13, 26, 55, 71, 195, 235, 237

Carney, Mark, 252–56, 258–61

Carr, David, 140

Carter, Amy, 265–66

Casabolseros, Los, 51

Caterpillar, 26

CEOs, 134–40, 190, 219, 261

Cerisola, Pedro, 197

Chanos, James, 142, 172

Chaplin, Charlie, 98–100, 108, 114

charity, 70–76, 246, 264

Chasing Stars
(Groysberg), 129

chefs, 111–13, 138

Chicago Tribune,
247

Chile, 149

China, xiii, 3, 14–17, 19–22, 27, 28, 30, 35, 62–63, 66, 68, 92, 146, 149, 156, 162, 186, 193, 198, 203–10, 217, 255–56, 260, 266, 267, 285

Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference in, 203

Communist Party in, 46

income vs. happiness in, 31–32

iPhone and, 28

iPod and, 24–26

Ming Dynasty in, 96

National People’s Congress in, 203–4, 207, 209

princelings in, 208, 209

rent-seeking in, 204–10

strikes and, 33

“China Syndrome, The” (Autor, Dorn, and Hanson), 23–24, 27

Chopra, Tejpreet Singh, 157–59

Christensen, Clayton, 145, 147, 158

Chubais, Anatoly, 188

Cisco, 174

Citadel, 51

Citigroup, 63, 106, 121, 169–70, 257

consumer hourglass theory of, 6

plutonomy memo of, 5, 147, 167

revolutions and, 147

Clearwell, 106

Clinton, Bill, x, 3, 68, 71, 72, 270

Clinton, Chelsea, 72, 266

Clinton, Hillary, 265

Clinton Global Initiative, 68

clothing industry, 113–16

cognitive state capture, 256–57, 272–73

Cohen, Rachel, 76

collective good, 55–56

Commercial Advertiser,
7

Commonwealth Club, 176–78

communications technology, 99–100

communism, 14, 17–18, 21, 77, 136, 266, 284

Communist Party, 46, 89

computers, 146, 166–67

Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 43–44

Cook, Charlie, 111

Cook Political Report,
111

cooks, 111–13, 138

Cooper, Peter, 39

Cooper, Thomas, 11

Cooperman, Leon, 45, 245–46

Corak, Miles, 283

corruption, 224

in India, 201–2

legal, 224–27

Council on Foreign Relations, 185, 227

Crassus, Marcus, 195

creative capitalism, 75

Credit Suisse, 34–35, 122

Global Wealth Report of, 58–59

Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), 159–61

crony capitalism, 82–84, 190

Dalits, 45

Daschle, Tom, 270

data, big, 146, 165–66

Davies, Howard, 214–15

Davos, 61, 62, 68, 72, 75, 227

Deaton, Angus, 31, 82

Dedrick, Jason, 24–26

Delivering Happiness
(Hsieh), 230

Deloitte, 173

democracy, 77

Deneuve, Catherine, 116

Deng Xiaoping, 156

dentists, 101, 107

Depression, Great, xiii, 9, 13, 29, 115

Depression, Long, 7, 9, 41

deregulation, 220–23, 225, 227

derivatives business, 212, 221

Detroit, Mich., 184, 280

Treaty of, 17, 18

DiCaprio, Leonardo, 108

DiFuria, Joan, 176

Digital Sky Technologies (DST), 66, 164

Dimon, Jamie, 244–45, 253–55, 257–60

Djilas, Milovan, 89–90, 266

DLA Piper, 105, 106

DLD (Digital-Life-Design), 68

Doll, Bob, 5