Plutocrats

Hazare, Anna, 80, 200

health care, 76

hedge funds, 2, 51, 74, 120, 121, 128, 138, 266

Heritage Foundation, 190

Hernandez, Roberto, 196

Herzen, Alexander, xiv

Hewitt, Abram, 39

Hewlett, Bill, 56

Hewlett-Packard (HP), 187

Hindery, Leo, 270

Hindoo, 39–40

Hirschorn, Michael, 165

Hoffman, Reid, 141, 181–85, 187

Holbrooke, Richard, 69

Holocaust, 152–53

Holzle, Urs, 171

Hong Kong, 35, 63

Hoogewerf, Rupert, 62, 205

Howie, Fraser, 207–8

Hsieh, Tony, 69, 173, 230, 231, 233–34

Huang Guangyu, 208

Hubbard, Glenn, 213

Huffington Post, 70

humanities, 267

Huntsman, Jon, 209, 243

Hurun Report, 204–5, 208

Hutchins, Glenn, 59

I

Iacocca, Lee, 262

IBM, 155, 180, 187

idea conferences, 67–70, 72

ideological vs. evidence-based worldviews, 93–94

Igan, Deniz, 222, 223

Immelt, Jeff, 63–64, 245

immigration, 61, 147

inclusive societies, 279–81, 283–85

income:

of average family in U.S., 34

of bankers, 218–21, 259

capital gains, 17, 44, 78, 79

comparing across history, 194–95

in economic recovery of 2009–2010, xiii

happiness and, 31–32

national, 1 percent’s share of, 3, 14

of superstars vs. everyone else, 100–101

of top 0.01 percent, 44

see also wages

India, xiii, 3, 10, 15–16, 19, 21–22, 28, 30, 32–33, 35, 62–63, 66, 80, 92, 146, 149, 155–59, 186, 188–89, 193–94, 197–203, 266, 267

billionaire-to-GDP ratio in, 189, 199

corruption in, 201–2

GDP in, 199

License Raj in, 198–99

rent-seeking in, 198–200, 228

Indian Institute of Technology, 188

industrial revolution, 8–16, 19–22, 29, 40–42, 50, 67, 146, 164, 178

Luddites and, 12–13, 96–97

mass production in, 99

superstars and, 95–99, 118

Infosys, 201

Ingersoll, Robert, 42

Innovator’s Dilemma, The (Christensen), 145

Inside Job, 270

insider trading, 269

Institute of International Finance, 254

intellectuals, 89–94, 110–11

Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power, The (Konrad and Szelenyi), 89–90, 136

interior designers, 102

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 144, 188, 189, 217, 222, 252–53

Internet, 100, 108, 109, 126, 146, 165, 176, 182

iPhone, 28

iPod, 24–26

Ireland, 32

Israel, 3

Italy, 96

J

Japan, 35, 64

Jefferson, Thomas, 11–12, 42

Jennings, Stephen, 65–66, 159–62, 168–69, 173

Jensen, Michael, 133–34

JetBlue, 156

Jobs, Steve, 49, 55, 190, 246, 280

John, Elton, 109, 110

Johnson, Boris, 57, 69

Johnson, Pitch, 56, 178

Johnson, Simon, 189

Jones, Alfred Winslow, 120–22

JPMorgan, 253–55, 257–58, 260