John Kampfner on the Rich

From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The Rich is the fascinating history of how economic elites from ancient Egypt to present day oligarchs have gained and spent their money. Have the same instincts of entrepreneurship, ambition, vanity, greed and philanthropy applied throughout?

As contemporary politicians, economists and the public wrestle with the inequities of our time – the parallel world inhabited by the ultra-wealthy at a time of broader hardship – Kampfner asks the question: is the development of the globalised super-rich over the past twenty years anything new?

Chaired by John Gapper, Associate Editor at the Financial Times.