“Name one action”
Ginia Bellafante, “With Vows Exchanged, Break Out the Slides,”
, December 16, 2011.
“The new philanthropists believe”
Matthew Bishop and Michael Green,
(Bloomsbury, 2008), pp. 2–3.
“What they are doing is much more”
CF interview with Matthew Bishop, November 2011.
“If we can apply the entrepreneurial”
Jamie Doward, “Can This ‘Venture Philanthropist’ Save Our Schools?”
, May 29, 2005.
“We have to figure out what makes”
Bill Gates, prepared remarks at the 2010 Annual Policy Forum of the Council of Chief State School Officers. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/speeches-commentary/pages/bill-gates-2010-ccsso.aspx.
“Our foundation tends to fund more”
Jeff Guo, “In Interview, Gates Describes Philanthropic Journey,”
, April 23, 2010.
“They can also do dangerous things”
Charles Piller and Doug Smith, “Unintended Victims,”
, December 16, 2007.
whose members included two millionaires
Ibid.
“was not Democracy”
Jeffrey A. Winters,
(Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 227. Subsequent statistics come from
pp. 227–31.
“income defense industry”
Ibid., p. xii.
“There’s class warfare, all right”
Ben Stein, “In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning?”
, November 26, 2006.
“I think people making $5 million”
CF interview with Holly Peterson.
Peering inside the top 1 percent
Brian Bell and John Van Reenen, “Bankers’ Pay and Extreme Wage Inequality in the UK,” CEP Special Report, April 2010. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28780/1/cepsp21.pdf.
“There were about 150,000 Americans”
Jeffrey A. Winters,
, (Cambridge University Press, 2011), p. 214.
compiled a data set chronicling
Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, “Transitions: Career and Family Life Cycles of the Educational Elite,”
, 98:2, 363–69.
“very poor and destitute respondents”
Carol Graham,
, (Oxford University Press, 2010), p. 151.
“the gains around them”
Chrystia Freeland, “For Dictators, Protests Offer 3 Lessons.”
, December 15, 2011.
there were just 412 billionaires
p. 215.
For 47,745 of the 47,763 runners who competed
Dave Ungrady, “As Miles Add Up, So Do the Unforgettable Moments,”
, November 1, 2011.
By 2007, the number of women
Daniel J. Hemel, “’07 Men Make More,”
, June 6, 2007.
women outnumbered men
Catherine Rampell, “Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces,”
, February 6, 2010.
In 2010, about four in ten
Sarah Jane Glynn, “The New Breadwinners: 2010 Update,” Center for American Progress, April 2012. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/04/pdf/breadwinners.pdf.
In 1979, nearly 8 percent
“Jobs and Income Growth of the Top Earners and the Causes of Changing Income Inequality: Evidence from U.S. Tax Return Data,” working paper, April 2012, p. 19. http://web.williams.edu/Economics/wp/BakijaColeHeimJobsIncomeGrowthTopEarners.pdf.
CHAPTER 3: SUPERSTARS
“A society in which knowledge workers dominate”
Peter Drucker, “The Age of Social Transformation,”
, November 1994, p. 67.
“It is probably a misfortune that”
Friedrich A. Hayek,
(The University of Chicago Press, 1976), p. 74.
“It is possible that intelligent tadpoles”
R. H. Tawney,
(Capricorn Books, 1961), p. 108.
samizdat manuscript
Gyorgy Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi,
