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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Overview
Tycoonomics: Big Firms, Big Money, and Development
Structure of the Book
A Note on the Approach
I The Tycoons
1 Who Are the Superrich?
How and Why Do People Become Very Rich?
Determinants of Extreme Wealth
Takeaways
2 Billionaires, by Region and Sector
Billionaire Data around the Globe
Which Sectors Account for This Growth?
Regional Trends: From East Asia to Africa
Takeaways
II Their Businesses
3 Why Are Large Firms Good for Growth?
Firm Size and Allocation of Resources among Firms
Evidence on Firm Size
Individuals Matter
Flood of New Emerging-Market Mega Firms
Connecting Firms and Individuals
Firms behind Emerging-Market Growth
Takeaways
4 Historical Experiences of Development: Large Firms and Extreme Wealth
Big Firms and Big Money during Industrialization
Growth without Large Firms
Big Firms and Big Money in Asia
Contested versus Uncontested Wealth
Big Firms without Wealth Creation
Effects of Wealth on the Economy
Takeaways
5 Big Business, Structural Transformation, and Development
Projected Increases in Extreme Wealth in Emerging Markets
Extreme Wealth and Structural Transformation
Self-Made Founders Employ the Most People
Emerging-Market Firms Displace Advanced-Country Firms
Is Extreme Wealth Necessary?
Takeaways
6 Globalization and Extreme Wealth
Extreme Wealth and Extreme Talent
Examples of the Role of Globalization in Wealth Creation
Trickle-Down Wealth
Company Exports, Country Trade, and Wealth
Takeaways
III Demographic Differences
7 A Few Good Women
The Amazing Women of China and the United States
Sectors of Self-Made Women
Why Are There So Few Self-Made Billionaire Women?
Why Is China Different?
Importance of Female Entrepreneurs for Resource Allocation
Women Helping Women
Why Do Women Inherit Less Than Men?
Takeaways
8 Young Entrepreneurs, Younger Firms
Emerging-Market Billionaires Are Young
Emerging-Market Companies Are Young
Transition: Get Richer or Get Out
Creative Destruction: Changes in the Billionaires List between 2001 and 2014
Takeaways
IV Inequality and Policy Implications
9 Inequality, Growth, and Redistribution
Admiration of the Superrich in Emerging Markets
Inequality in the North and South
Takeaways
10 Policies for Promoting Innovation and Equity
Creating an Environment that Is Conducive to Growth
Limiting Unproductive but Profitable Activities
Takeaways
References
Index
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