“flying class”
Scott Turow,
(Grand Central, 1994), p. 304.
When the European sovereign debt crisis
Eric Dash, “In Euro Era, Opening Bell Is a 2:30 A.M. Alarm,”
, December 10, 2011.
“We are Wall Street”
Stacy-Marie Ishmael, “We Are Wall Street…” Alphaville blog,
April 30, 2010.
“The average tenure of a Fortune 500 CEO”
A. G. Lafley, “The Art and Science of Finding the Right CEO,”
, October 2011.
“If you push towards an Apple world, a Google world”
CF interview with Eike Batista, September 23, 2011.
The famous Whitehall study
The first Whitehall Study, begun in 1967 with a sample of 18,000 male civil servants, found higher mortality rates and prevalence of cardiorespiratory disease among those with lower employment grades.
“and the law of competition between”
Andrew Carnegie, “Wealth,”
148:391 (June 1889).
“It’s not possible in tech to frame your ambitions”
CF interview with Eric Schmidt, February 23, 2011.
“Those of you who practice”
Pitch Johnson, lecture of venture entrepreneurship at Moscow’s Polytechnic Museum, October 2010.
“Britain now has a Wimbledon economy”
Harry Mount, “England, Their England: Foreign Money Now Dominates at the Most Traditional of Summer Fixtures,”
, June 18, 2011.
“There’s an interaction between the global elite”
CF interview with Eric Schmidt. February 23, 2011.
“The base of the wealth pyramid”
Global Wealth Report, Credit Suisse Research Institute, October 2011, pp. 16–17.
“A person in Africa”
Chrystia Freeland, “The Rise of the New Global Elite,”
, January/February 2011.
“I think, in a sad sense, these cities are so similar now”
CF interview with Aditya Mittal, November 11, 2010.
“There are more and more global CEO meetings”
CF interview with Dominic Barton, November 30, 2011.
“There is an emergent power in people”
CF interview with Eric Schmidt, February 23, 2011.
“This is the new wave, the new trend”
Chrystia Freeland, “Global Seagulls and the New Reality of Immigration,”
, October 6, 2011.
“Four out of every five Chinese entrepreneurs today”
GroupM Knowledge–Hurun Wealth Report 2011, p. 19.
nearly 60 percent
Tim Adams, “Who Owns Our Green and Pleasant Land?”
, August 6, 2011.
a study of British and American CEOs
Elisabeth Marx,
(Heidrick & Struggles, 2007). http://www.heidrick.com/PublicationsReports/PublicationsReports/RoutetotheTop.pdf
“I came to GE in 1982”
Chrystia Freeland, “Accepting the Rise of China,”
, January 20, 2011.
“is not going to be the engine”
Chrystia Freeland, “U.S. Needs to Think Globally About Business,”
, October 20, 2011.
“This year, almost 90 percent of our sales”
Freeland, “The Rise of the New Global Elite.”
“they don’t think of themselves as American anymore”
Conversation with author at Council on Foreign Relations, New York, April 5, 2012.
“I have three passports”
Freeland, “The Rise of the New Global Elite.”
“The largest metals group in the world is Indian”
Stephen Jennings, “Opportunities of a Lifetime: Lessons for New Zealand from New, High-Growth Economics,” Sir Ronald Trotter Lecture, April 7, 2009.
“They know how to provide mobile phones”
Chrystia Freeland, “Globalization 2.0: Emerging-Market Cross-Pollination,”
, October 1, 2010.
“The proprietor of land is necessarily a citizen”
Adam Smith,
, Book V, Chapter II, Section 91.
“We don’t have castles and noble titles”
Benjamin Wallace, “Those Fabulous Confabs,”
, February 26, 2012.
and where, in lieu of noble titles, an elaborate hierarchy of conference badges
Nick Paumgarten, “Magic Mountain: What Happens at Davos?”
, March 5, 2012.
“Combined, our contacts reach”
“Chris Anderson on TED’s Nonprofit Transition.” TED. February 2002. http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_shares_his_vision_for_ted.html.
