The great economist Joseph Schumpeter has described "waves of creative destruction" that crash through the world economy, sweeping in new wealth, drowning old wealth.
The sweeping "Generation Wealth" exhibition, featuring 195 prints and 42 first-person interviews, goes on view at the Annenberg Space for Photography next month.
Mrs. Thatcher, many Britons said, transformed their country, opening the way for sweeping privatization and deregulation, legitimizing wealth and unleashing acquisitive, entrepreneurial passions among her compatriots.
Greater wealth has led to sweeping diet changes and increasing obesity rates, a major risk factor for Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all diabetes cases among adults.
But other teachers said that their students, largely born in the '80s, simply reflect the changes sweeping China, which have brought more wealth to the country and given it more of a global consciousness.
Perhaps I'm restating the obvious, but wasn't it the very same stock market that crashed in 2000 and then again in 2008, sweeping away much of their clients' wealth in the first place?
The Mughal elite enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle, with gardens, feasts, harems, sweeping palaces and many other ostentatious manifestations of wealth.
Wood is impressed by the way it exposes sweeping historical trends and has shone a light on wealth as an issue.
The mobile Internet, a technological tsunami now inundating Japan and soon to surge through the rest of the world, is sweeping aside an old order and lifting a few entrepreneurs into astronomical wealth.
Picketty is pessimistic that much can be done to reverse it (his sweeping economic data suggest that slow growth will almost automatically concentrate great wealth in a relatively few hands).
