Plutocrats

Tolstoy, Leo, 39

“Top Executives Are Worth Every Nickel They Get” (Murphy), 131–33

topple rate, 173

Touati, Bernard, 107

travel, 52–53, 58, 60–61

Treasury bills, 265

Treaty of Detroit, 17, 18

Tressel, Thierry, 222

Trichet, Jean-Claude, 141

Trollope, Anthony, 99

Turkey, 21, 35, 197

Turnaround Kid, The (Miller), 27

Turow, Scott, 38, 52, 61

Tutu, Desmond, 69

Twain, Mark, 8, 38

The Gilded Age, 6–7, 13

Twitter, 109, 146, 171

Tymoshenko, Yulia, 192

U

U2, 109, 110

UBS, 16

Ukraine, 72–73, 79–80, 191–93

unemployment, 186–87, 238, 240, 265

Ungaro, Emanuel, 116

unions, 17, 33, 91, 286

United Auto Workers (UAW), 17

universities, 264, 267

University of Chicago, 188

USA Today, 2

U.S. Steel, 195

V

van Ours, Jan, 126

Van Reenen, John, 23, 28, 29, 81, 136

Vardi, Yossi, 68

Varshney, Ashutosh, 28, 155–56

Vekselberg, Viktor, 150, 151, 176, 180, 181

Venice, 277–80, 282–84, 286

La Serrata in, 279, 280, 283, 286

venture capital, 120, 121

Victoria, Queen, 8

video technology, 165, 174

Volcker, Paul, 64–65, 219, 221

von Furstenberg, Diane, 107

von Metternich, Pauline, 114

W

wages, 240

college education and, 47–48

minimum, 17, 91

see also income

Wall Street, 53, 63, 83–84, 93, 105, 119–22, 129–30, 166–67, 211–16, 218, 219, 221, 222, 235, 257, 267

lobbying and, 222–24, 247, 260–62, 273

regulation of, 211–12

Wall Street, 2, 152

Wall Street Journal,

56, 144, 211, 213, 223

Walt Disney Company, 127–30, 143

Walter, Carl, 207–8

Walton, Michael, 197

Wang Huiyao, 60–61

Wang Jianlin, 204

Warburg, Siegmund, 119

Wareham, Jamie, 106

Warner, Charles Dudley, 13

Warner Music, 170–71

Washington Consensus, 17–18

Washington Post, 125

Washington State, 235

Watson, James, 124

Watts, Duncan, 126

Waugh, Rick, 254–55

Wealth of Nations, The

(Smith), 67, 131

Weill, Sandy, 48

Weinberg, Peter, 170

Weizmann, Chaim, 124, 125

Welch, Jack, 64, 130

Wen Jiabao, 205–6, 210

Whitehall Study, 54

Who Is to Blame?

(Herzen), xiv

Wien, Byron, 142

Williams, Robin, 127

Williamson, Jeffrey, 12

Wilson, Charlie, 255, 258, 272

Wilson, Thomas, 64

Winfrey, Oprah, 112