Plutocrats

Seasteading Institute, 250

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 226, 256

self-interest, 178, 215, 216, 239–40, 243–44, 249, 273–75, 286

Sennett, Mack, 98

Sense and Sensibility

(Austen), 274–75

sewing machine, 113–15

Shaw, George Bernard, 39

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 89

Shubrick, 40

Silicon Valley, 46–47, 56, 93, 163–64, 166, 171, 174, 175, 181–83, 230–31, 235, 236, 238, 283, 285

Silver Lake, 59

Simmons, Ruth, 284

Singapore, 63

Singer, Paul, 77

Singh, Manmohan, 155, 198–99

Sinha, Jayant, 189

skill-biased technical change, 91

skimming, 138

Slim, Carlos, 42, 46, 51, 195–98, 199, 218, 227, 236, 255

Smith, Adam, 67, 131, 138, 194, 229

Smith, Art, 112

Smith, Michael, 102

social mobility, 5, 82, 278–79

income inequality and, 283–84

Socialnet, 183

Somoza family, 191

Sorensen, Alan, 126

Soros, George, 53–54, 70, 73, 77, 141–45, 147, 148, 152–55, 172–73, 242

Soros, Jonathan, 153, 173

Soros, Tivadar, 152–53

South Korea, 32, 193

Soviet republics, former, 20, 77, 149, 155, 192, 193, 267

Soviet Union, 14, 17, 89–90, 144, 155, 178–80, 266

Spectator, 56–57, 59, 67

Spence, Michael, 20, 187

Spitzer, Eliot, 213

Splinter, Michael, 64

sports stars, 108–9, 129, 130, 138

Stalin, Joseph, 20, 90

Stanford Business School, 61, 147

Starr International, 101

Start-Up of You, The (Hoffman), 184–85, 187

Stengel, Rick, 72

Stephenson, Randall, 164, 185–86

Stevenson, Betsey, 32

Stewart, Rod, 36

Stiglitz, Joe, 27

Stock Market Boys, 51

Stoll, Craig, 112–13

Strauss-Kahn, Dominique, 72, 238–39

Stringer, Howard, 36

student activism, 268

Sull, Donald, 145, 147, 167–68, 171

Summers, Larry, xiii, 49, 87, 165, 174

Sunstein, Cass, 93

Sun Valley, 68

Sun Yat-sen, 39

superstars, 88–140

fees charged by, 101–3

globalization and, 91–92, 108

income of, vs. everyone else, 100–101

industrial revolution and, 95–99, 118

and talent vs. capital, 116–17, 122, 129–30

technology and, 91–92, 98–100, 108, 109

“Sustaining New York’s and the US’ Global Financial Services Leadership,” 211–15

Swank, Hilary, 110

Sweden, xii, 3, 12

Switzerland, 35, 63

Szelenyi, Ivan, 89–90, 136, 266

Tahrir Square, 80

Taiwan, 35

Tawney, R. H., 88

taxes, 5, 14, 17, 78–79, 190, 243, 246–47, 249, 255, 264, 286

TeamLease, 32

Tea Party, 28, 42, 92

technology:

communication, 99–100

race between education and, 47–48

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

skill-biased change in, 91

superstars and, 91–92, 98–100, 108, 109

TED conference, 68

telecommunications, 224, 225

privatization in, 196–98

Telmex, 196–98, 218, 225

Temin, Peter, 17

Tencent, 66

Thain, John, 36, 102, 214–16

Thatcher, Margaret, 17

Theory of Moral Sentiments, The (Smith), 229

Thiel, Peter, 183, 250

think tanks, 72, 77, 265, 267

Thornton, John, 213

Tiger Management, 142

Tinbergen, Jan, 47

Tito, Josip Broz, 89–90

Tocqueville, Alexis de, xi, 12