Who are the people that make up the world’s economic elite—and do they differ between countries? In a new, unique database, an international team of researchers has compiled individual data from 16 countries that together account for a third of the world’s population and more than half of the world’s GDP. Their study is published in The British Journal of Sociology.
Ten things research tells us about the global economic elite
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