Plutocrats

Q

Qiu Ying, 96

Quantum Fund, 142, 143, 154, 172

Queen Elisabeth Competition, 126

Quiggin, John, 48

R

Radia, Niira, 200

railroads, 178, 191

Raja, Andimuthu, 200

Rajan, Raghuram, 188–89, 198, 201, 228

Rajaratnam, Raj, 121–22

Rakoff, Jed, 256

Rand, Ayn, 249

Rauh, Joshua, 119–20

Ravid, Abraham, 130

Reagan, Ronald, 17, 89

Reagan Revolution, xii

real estate, 222–23

Red Capitalism (Walter and Howie), 207–8

Reformed Broker, The, 84

Reich, Robert, 3

Renaissance, 96

Renaissance Capital, 65, 159

rentier elite, 42, 43, 283

rent-seeking, 188–228, 283

in China, 204–10

globalization and, 226–28

in India, 198–200, 228

value creation vs., 280–81

Reshef, Ariell, 48, 220–21

revolutions, 141–87

industrial, see

industrial revolution

political, 144–46

in technology, xiv, 4, 14–15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 25, 28, 30–31, 67, 100, 104, 146, 157–58, 164, 166, 184, 221, 285

Reynolds, Joshua, 94

“rich,” use of word, x

Roach, Stephen, 210

robber barons, xv, 9, 19, 41, 42, 71, 118, 134, 191, 195, 237

Roosevelt on, 177–78

Robertson, Julian, 142

Robinson, James, 279–80

Rockefeller, John D., 195

Rodriguez, Alex, 108–9

Rolls-Royce, 46

Romney, Mitt, 77, 92–94, 236, 237, 286

as empiricist, 93–94

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 132

Commonwealth Club speech of, 176–78

New Deal of, 13–14, 132–34, 177

Roosevelt, Theodore, 39

Rose, Charlie, 72

Rosen, Sherwin, 97, 99–100, 107–12, 116, 123

Rosoff, Matt, 238

Royal Bank of Canada, 217

Royal Bank of Scotland, 217

Rubenstein, David, 121, 148–49

Rubin, Bob, 213

Russia, 3, 14, 19, 35, 56, 62, 66, 82, 96, 148, 149, 159–61, 163, 164, 178–81, 186, 206, 260

billionaire-to-GDP ratio in, 189

Bolsheviks in, 14, 93, 145, 284

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

Revolution in, 152–53

science and technology in, 178–79

Russian oligarchs, 42, 46, 51–52, 61–62, 72, 92, 107, 147, 149–52, 186, 193, 196, 223, 255, 285

Ryan, Paul, 83, 190

S

Sabharwal, Manish, 32

Saez, Emmanuel, xiii, 34, 35–36, 43, 117, 281

Said, Wafic, 62

Sainath, Palagummi, 32

Saint Laurent, Yves, 114–16

Salganik, Matthew, 126

Salinas, Carlos, 196, 198

Salomon Brothers, 130

Sandberg, Sheryl, 174–75

Santorum, Rick, 246

Sawiris, Naguib, 4, 35, 77

Say’s law, 30–31

Schiff, Peter, 245

Schmidt, Eric, 56, 58, 69, 104–5, 236, 238, 280–81

Schmidt, Jacqueline, 70

Schrage, Elliot, 47

Schultz, Howard, 69

Schumer, Chuck, 211–13, 227

Schumpeter, Joseph, 32, 118

Schwarzman, Steve, 1, 36–37, 45, 46, 60, 147, 237, 243

science, 123–25

screenplays, 128