Plutocrats: The Rise of the new Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, by Chystia Freeland, Penguin Books, 2012

Plutocrats: The Rise of the new Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, by Chystia Freeland, Penguin Books, 2012

Chrystia Freeland was a business writer for the Globe and Mail and Reuters when she wrote this book. She documents the rising inequality of income that is happening globally, and especially in the US. This book demonstrates that Chrystia is a very impressive lady, and I take some comfort that she is now serving as Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Not as empirical or as wide in scope as Thomas Piketty’s Capital, but a useful complement.