“rising income inequality. not for nothing did Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ become a New York Times bestseller. Piketty made the strong claim that the rate of return on capital was, in the absence of wars and revolutions, always likely to be higher than the rate of economic growth. the implication was simply that the already well-off, basically those with no shortage of capital, would steadily get richer” WarPoliticsEconomyCorruptionPrivate SectorCapitalBusiness LeadersLobbyingIncome DisparityWeapons Industry Book:Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History Source: Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History