Showing posts with label Thomas Friedman Words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Friedman Words. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Pp: Plutocracy


1. Government by the wealthy.
2. A wealthy class that controls a government.
3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule.

In Context:
Peel's late conduct on the Catholic question, innocent of future gold-fields, and of that gorgeous plutocracy which has so nobly exalted the necessities of genteel life.Middlemarch by Eliot, George

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

destructive creation



whereby new technologies that improve people’s lives replace old ones