Definition of "plutonomy" []

• An economy that is significantly influenced by the very wealthy. (noun)
• The study of the production and distribution of wealth. (noun)

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• ""Perhaps one reason that societies allow plutonomy is because enough of the electorate believe they have a chance of becoming a Pluto-participant," he wrote back then."
• "Another surprising disclosure is an internal Citigroup memo that claims that the US doesn't have an economy, but a "plutonomy" -- an economy based primarily on spending by the very rich."
• "Including the disaster capitalists who, in Naomi Klein's book, thought that they could own the world and simply jet away from all natural disasters to some well-appointed, "plutonomy" - friendly desert island."