Synopsis
An exploration into the lives of billionaires and issues such as tax avoidance, capitalism, societal structural changes, shrinking middle class.
- Programme: The Super-Rich and Us
- Episode: 1
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2015
- Sociology | How can patterns and trends in social inequality and difference be explained? | Sociological explanations of social inequalities: functionalism, Marxism, feminism, Weberian.
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