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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else is a work of reported political economy by journalist Chrystia Freeland, first published in 2012. The book examines the emergence of a global class of ultra-wealthy individuals whose fortunes, influence, and social networks increasingly separate them not only from ordinary citizens but also from the broader affluent class. Freeland combines interviews, business reporting, economic history, and examples from finance, technology, emerging markets, and philanthropy to explain how wealth became concentrated at the very top. Her purpose is not simply to describe luxury consumption, but to analyze how extreme wealth changes incentives, political power, identity, and democratic life. The book is especially concerned with the top 0.01 percent, a group that often sees itself as meritocratic, international, and socially beneficial, while also benefiting from economic structures and political choices that widen inequality.