Visualizing The Transnational Capitalist Class
January 23, 2013 by SocProf and tagged Dataviz, Power, Sociology, Transnational Capitalist Class
Via Nathan Yau (who did write the book on visualization and has a great website to go along with it), this very interesting and interactive visualization of the world’s billionaires:
Billionaires 2013 from SocProf on Vimeo.
Here are a few static images.
The rankings:
The bar charts:
The ranking shifts over one year:
The plots:
The map:
In case you wondered to whom I was referring in the video on the transnational capitalist class, it was, of course, Leslie Sklair who also wrote the book The Transnational Capitalist Class. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the sociological study of the dominant class in the global system. Then, you should read William I. Robinson’s A Theory of Global Capitalism.
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