Synopsis
The making of the super rich in the early 2000s through private equity firms and hedge funds.
- Programme: Super Rich: The Greed Game
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2008
- Sociology | How can patterns and trends in social inequality and difference be explained? | Sociological explanations of social inequalities: functionalism, Marxism, feminism, Weberian.
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