Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King

‘Anupreeta Das’s fascinating and ambitious ; Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King ;shows – through the complicated story of a single tycoon – how the power and the perils of enormous wealth shape and distort not only what we expect of our democratic institutions, our tax system, our public health infrastructure; it also examines how all of us are complicit in, but often aware of, the ways in which the wealthy use that wealth and that power to turn greed into generosity and immorality into heroism’ ;

Auteur
Anupreeta Das is the finance editor of the New York Times, overseeing coverage of Wall Street, including banking, investing, markets, insurance, and consumer finance. Previously, Das spent nearly a decade at the Wall Street Journal, where she helped run the paper's coverage of business and technology, focusing on corporations and the issues affecting them. She holds degrees from Boston University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Delhi.