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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 105–120.
Published: 01 March 2019
... domineering state. Some of the multimillionaires and billionaires interviewed for this research have married philanthrocapitalist ideas with beliefs molded by their Soviet past and their self-perception as belonging to the intelligentsia. Such distinct and seemingly morally superior identities, together...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 March 2019
... the 1 percent and the 99 percent has widened, new groups are ascending into the elite, from both established and emerging economies. In 2016, 55 percent of the world’s 2,397 billionaires were entirely “self-made”; 20 percent of those billionaires were from China, Russia, India, and Brazil ( Wealth-X...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 29–47.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Times , May 3 . Vogel Carol . 2013 b. “ Like Half the National Gallery in Your Backyard .” New York Times , April 21 . Wealth- X. 2017 a. Billionaire Census 2017 . New York : Wealth- X Applied Wealth Intelligence . Wealth- X. 2017 b. UHNW Interests, Passions...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 88–104.
Published: 01 March 2019
... : PERI . Sudarsanam Sudi . 1995 . The Essence of Mergers and Acquisitions . London : Prentice Hall . Sunday Times . 2017 . Sunday Times Rich List . Special insert, May 7 . UBS-PwC . 2017 . Billionaires Report . London : UBS-PwC . Useem Michael . 1984...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 March 2019
... . Quintavalle Alessandro . 2013 . “ Über Luxury: For Billionaires Only .” In Global Luxury Trends , edited by Hoffmann J. Coste-Maniere I. , 51 – 76 . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan . Ravallion Martin . 2016 . The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy . New...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 28–36.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-to-tax-their-obscene-wealth . Sanders Bernie . 2020b . “ Sanders, Colleagues Introduce Tax on Billionaire Wealth Gains to Provide Health Care for All .” Press release, August 6. www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-colleagues-introduce-tax-on-billionaire-wealth-gains...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 139–164.
Published: 01 July 2005
... (December), pp. 38 – 9 . Sklar Holly . 2004 . “ Boom Time for Billionaires. ” Znet Commentary (October 12). Available online: www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2004-10/12sklar.cfm . Stone Geoffrey R. 2004 . Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 139–152.
Published: 01 July 2018
... for dialectical perspectives on globalization to avoid one-sided and nondialectical positions. Trump’s administration contained a few antiglobalists like Steve Bannon, his former “Chief Strategist,” and other alt-right extremists, but also many globalists, militarists, and neoliberal billionaires. While John...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 252–255.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in mainstream political rhetoric as much as it is in reality television, Littler shows how it has found its representation in a diverse range of actors—from the idealized workers of Silicon Valley’s “new tech” economy and “salt of the earth” billionaires, to “rags to riches” reality TV winners. The book...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 72–87.
Published: 01 March 2019
... University Press Seife Charles . 2014 . “ ‘The Billionaires’ Space Club .” Slate , December 30 . www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/space_20/2014/12/billionaires_private_space_rocket_ships_elon_musk_and_richard_branson_go.html . Spence Emma . 2017 . “ Beyond the City...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (1): 15–28.
Published: 01 March 2019
... . 2012 . Pity the Billionaire: The Hard- Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right . New York : Picador . Fuchs Christian . 2018 . “ Authoritarian Capitalism, Authoritarian Movements, and Authoritarian Communication .” Media, Culture, and Society 40 , no 5 : 779 – 91...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (2): 227–246.
Published: 01 July 2022
... people. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated this stupefying concentration of wealth. During the first twelve months of the pandemic, billionaires in the United States alone increased their wealth by $1.6 trillion, even as 76 million people lost their jobs and one hundred thousand businesses closed...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 315–328.
Published: 01 November 2015
... on billboards ( Spillius 2010 : 12); a month later, a billboard in Missouri juxtaposed Obama with Hitler and Mao Zedong ( Wing 2010 ); billionaire Stephen Schwartzman equated Obama’s proposal to close a tax loophole to the Nazi invasion of Poland ( Krugman 2010 : 9); Stephen Broden, the 2010 Republican...
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (3): 289–303.
Published: 01 November 2018
... industry itself. It is perhaps fitting to conclude this point with the fact that Minecraft was acquired by Microsoft Studios in 2014 for $2.5 billion. Markus Persson became one of the world’s youngest billionaires and quickly fell into disrepute. The game has steadily been integrated into the less...
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (3): 372–386.
Published: 01 November 2019
... York : Viking . Mayer Jane . 2016 . Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires behind the Rise of the Radical Right . New York : Doubleday . Mises Ludwig . 1922 . Die Gemeinwirtschaft (Socialism) . Jena, Germany : Fischer . Mises Ludwig . (1936) 1981...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and with an introduction by Chris Turner . Cultural Politics 12 ( 1 ): 32 – 41 . Marx Karl . ( 1867 ) 1976 . Capital: Critique of Political Economy . Vol. 1 . Translated by Fowkes Ben . London : Penguin . McQuaig Linda Brooks Neil . 2013 . The Trouble with Billionaires: How...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 331–356.
Published: 01 November 2010
... doesn't mean it is communist (tell that to Bezos, Yang, Filo, Brin or Page, to name just a few billionaires who managed to scrape together private property from the Internet commons). While Benkler wrote: Take Google's algorithm. It aggregates the distributed judgments of millions of people who...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to a billionaire, DSK metonymically signified principles of both symbolic and economic exchange. For his (then) wife, Anne Sinclair, was also a media personality (of a popular Sunday newsmagazine show, Sept à huit [ Seven to Eight ]); her staggering wealth was inherited from her grandfather’s skill at art...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (3): 387–407.
Published: 01 November 2020
... hopes that the billionaire would behave more responsibly once in office, talk show host Bill Maher warned that “there is no normal president inside that Trump fat suit” (quoted in Burris 2017 ). As far as critics are concerned, Trump’s physical ingestion of material “junk” reflects the abject...
