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The Rise of The New Global Elite

By Chrystia Freeland,

F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind.

(Essential reading before Davos 2011)

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