Big Capital in an Unequal World

Inside the hidden lives of the global 1% , this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan s elite. Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage s rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan s wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.