Plutocrats

Nicaragua, 191

Niccolini, Julian, 36

Nigeria, 66

Nobel, Alfred, 71

Nobel Prize, 50, 69, 123, 124, 126, 175

Nolte, Nick, 127

Nucor, 158

O

Oakland A’s, 129

Obama, Barack, x, 18, 92–93, 242–43, 245, 247, 249, 250, 258, 269

as empiricist, 93

Observer, 74

Occupy movement, 28, 42, 80, 83, 92, 238, 244–45, 248–51

O’Connor, Caroline, 171–72

Odnoklassniki, 163

OECD, 3

O’Neill, Jim, 19, 21, 29–30, 33

one percent, xii, 135

0.1 percent vs., 79–83

99 percent vs., 80

during 1940s–1970s period, 14

in economic recovery of 2009–2010, xiii

political vs. economic focus on, xiv

share of national income, 3, 14

Open Society Foundations, 70, 77

Orange Revolution, 79–80, 192

Orlov, Yuri, 90

Orszag, Peter, 18

Orwell, George, 90

outsourcing, 92, 105, 106, 155, 179, 241

Oxford University, 62

P

Page, Larry, 55

PaineWebber, 142

Palin, Sarah, 83, 223

Pangea3, 106–7

paradigm shifts, 144, 145, 164

see also revolutions

paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires, 31–32, 51, 82

Paulson, Hank, 213, 271–72

Paulson, John, 148, 244

Pavarotti, Luciano, 97, 98

pay for performance, 136, 138, 139

PayPal, 171, 183

Perella, Joe, 170

Peru, 82

Peterson, Holly, 1–3, 52, 80–81

Peterson, Pete, 1, 36–37, 44–45, 70, 78, 80

Petrarca, Francesco, 278

philanthro-capitalism, 71, 74–76, 264, 267

philanthropy, 70–76, 246, 264

Philippines, 25

Philippon, Thomas, 48, 53, 220–21

Pierson, Paul, 18

Piff, Paul, 239

Piketty, Thomas, 34, 43

Pimco, 65, 251

Pinchuk, Victor, 72–73, 268, 270

Pipes, Richard, 145

Pisarev, Kirill, 103

pivoting, 171–73

Platinum Study, 43

Pleading Guilty

(Turow), 38

Plepler, Richard, 72

Pliny the Elder, 195

Plutarch, 195

political influence, 222–24, 247, 260–62

political revolutions, 144–46

politicians, 76–79, 269–70

Polo, Marco, 278

Poore, Peter, 76

PopTech, 67

Porter, Michael, 23

Posner, Victor, 120, 122

Potanin, Vladimir, 151

Premji, Azim, 155

Prince, Chuck, 169–70

private equity, 120–22, 128, 190, 243, 280

privatization, 193–94, 205, 207, 222, 225

in Russia, 162–64, 176, 179–81, 188, 192–93, 198, 207, 218, 223, 225

telecom, 196–98

privilege, 239

transferred to children, 282–83

Progress and Poverty (George), 38, 40–41

Progressive Era, 39, 78

Prokhorov, Mikhail, 162

Putin, Vladimir, 80, 107, 149–51, 255