Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of wealth or riches.
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- noun An economy that is significantly influenced by the very wealthy.
- noun The study of the
production anddistribution ofwealth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Perhaps one reason that societies allow plutonomy is because enough of the electorate believe they have a chance of becoming a Pluto-participant," he wrote back then.
How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"Perhaps one reason that societies allow plutonomy is because enough of the electorate believe they have a chance of becoming a Pluto-participant," he wrote back then.
How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression Ryan McCarthy 2010
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"Perhaps one reason that societies allow plutonomy is because enough of the electorate believe they have a chance of becoming a Pluto-participant," he wrote back then.
How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"Perhaps one reason that societies allow plutonomy is because enough of the electorate believe they have a chance of becoming a Pluto-participant," he wrote back then.
How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression Ryan McCarthy 2010
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Another surprising disclosure is an internal Citigroup memo that claims that the US doesn't have an economy, but a "plutonomy" -- an economy based primarily on spending by the very rich.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Capitalism: A Love Story -- A Must-See Subversion 2009
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Including the disaster capitalists who, in Naomi Klein's book, thought that they could own the world and simply jet away from all natural disasters to some well-appointed, "plutonomy" - friendly desert island.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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The division of the world into rich and poor, what Citigroup describes as a "plutonomy and everyone else," worries even big financial services companies oCAHP93ivtdBcGtNdYL%2FGPh%2B8LHufM13xzhRMKrDPDWB1DlkkdhmK4UQ8wiYASgmNrkmgELjBSklED67kpphnQ%3D%3D @SashaHalima Facebook's plan to share users' home addresses, phone numbers:
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com John Feffer 2011
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Michael Moore's movie "Capitalism, A Love Story" brought attention to a concept known as "plutonomy," referring to economic growth that is powered and consumed entirely by the wealthy.
Dave Johnson: Congress Giving Up On Helping Unemployed? 2010
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If you want to read the Citigroup "plutonomy" memo (which I highly recommend), go here.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Capitalism: A Love Story -- A Must-See Subversion 2009
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And someone like Kucinich doesn't have a shot in the oligarchic system capitalism has managed to set up as its political branch (Moore refers to a Citigroup document praising it as "plutonomy").
bilby commented on the word plutonomy
"We are shown a leaked Citigroup memo that boasts of the results of Wall Street's unbridled profiteering. America has become a plutonomy, the memo gloats, where 1 percent of the population effectively owns and controls everything that goes on."
- Brian Jones, Capitalism, we're through, socialistworker.org, 2 October 2009.
October 2, 2009
qms commented on the word plutonomy
Deluded, resentful, they throng to see
His orgy of bombastic bonhomie.
The whole horde agrees
To be worker bees
And strive in the hive of plutonomy.
August 2, 2018