Piketty dislikes the Republicans as a group: The "party sinks into a hyper-nationalist, anti-immigrant and anti-Islam discourse... and a limitless glorification of the fortune amassed by rich white people," he wrote.
Over a period of 40 years, a single collector amassed a rich assortment of works and ephemera by the seminal French artist Marcel Duchamp -- including numerous book covers and magazines that the artist helped design even after he'd bid goodbye to art-making in order to focus on chess.
"And by Göring and Hitler!" If the African-American experience is a diaspora, Dodson has amassed its richest seed bank.
Susan Welty, who has played French horn for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for 16 seasons, has amassed an unusually rich perspective.
No other director amassed such a rich array of seminal movie moments, from the shower scene in Psycho to the crop-dusting in North by Northwest.
The French book collector Louis César de la Baume Le Blanc, duc de La Vallière, had amassed a library rich in manuscripts, incunabula (books printed before 1501), and early French poetry.
For example, the elected governments of countries like Guatemala did little to stand in the way as the rich amassed tremendous wealth, allowing a coalition of agricultural growers and financial groups to block tax reforms.
The fine design was the work of Joseph Friedman, a veteran of the New York "publishing wars," the uncluttered text was written by Jeremy Brecher, and the collection of photographs that Maureen Prentice amassed is unusually rich.
From Wikinvest CEO Michael Sha: "We've amassed an incredibly rich set of portfolio data that, when complemented with our unique user generated content, will provide a much better way to manage your investments than what's found today on traditional finance portals like Yahoo Finance".
Yet Japan may be the place where his thesis holds up least well.The bursting of Japan's asset bubble in 1991 is one reason why the rich have amassed less than in America or many European countries.
