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Chrystia Freeland

Chrystia Freeland is the digital editor at Thomson Reuters, following years of service at the Financial Times both in New York and in London. She was the deputy editor of Canada’s The Globe and Mail and has reported for The Financial Times, The Economist, and The Washington Post. Freeland’s previous book was Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of the Second Russian Revolution (2005). She lives in New York City. icon

Virtual Panel on Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats

By Chrystia Freeland, Shamus Khan, & Robert Frank

Chrystia Freeland’s Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (Penguin, 2012) was published to high acclaim and controversy in the fall. At the live Public Books ...

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