Essays about: "Billionaires"

Found 3 essays containing the word Billionaires.

  1. 1. Silence is Golden : a Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of Billionaires and Economic Inequality in the Swedish News Media

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Axel Vikström; [2018]
    Keywords : Economic inequality; The super-rich; Billionaires; Wealth; Critical discourse analysis; News media; Neo-liberalism; Undeserving rich; Visibility management; Silence; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Economic inequality is growing rapidly worldwide. Despite research showing that higher inequality within a society corresponds with a higher rate of public health and social problems, there exist little organized resistance against the neo-liberal economic policies that allow the super-rich to pull away from the rest of the population. READ MORE

  3. 2. Wealth Inequality and Mobility - Evidence from the Forbes World Billionaires List

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sebastian Schmidt; [2017]
    Keywords : wealth inequality; wealth mobility; Pareto distribution; power law estimation; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The paper analyses data from the “Forbes World Billionaires List” from 1996 to 2015. Decomposing the sample finds, that inherited wealth exhibits higher levels of inequality than self-made wealth. Overall inequality decreases and the inequality level of the self-made subgroup converges to the one of inherited wealth. READ MORE

  4. 3. "How a leader turns to dictator" : Analysis of Kaddafi's life through leadership theories

    University essay from Ekonomihögskolan, ELNU

    Author : Francois Dangreau; [2012]
    Keywords : leadersip;

    Abstract : Abstract To the pantheon of grotesque and bloodthirsty dictators is now, on the front row, the Colonel Muammar Kaddafi who, for over 40 years, bought the silence of Western democracies with oil from his country and amuse the gallery with his folk outfit, his tents, his very close female guard, his reasoning and his degenerated offspring for a smoky diversion to hide the crimes of his regime. How the world has tolerated all these years, a fool like him who dictated the law to his enslaved people and executed worldwide opponents? Was it not enough to analyze his rambling speeches to understand that it was a Nero in power? Initially, this fictional character, out of "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was probably not as crazy. READ MORE