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Institutional environment quality and the longevity of billionaire entrepreneurs by Bin Ke, Zengquan Li, Qing Ye

“…Using self-made billionaire entrepreneurs in China as a proxy for large entrepreneurs, we examine the impact of institutional environment quality on the longevity of such entrepreneurs. …”
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‘Raising righteous billionaires’: The prosperity gospel reconsidered by Ebenezer Obadare

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Statistical modeling of the net worth of billionaires in Africa by Saralees Nadarajah, Adamu Abubakar Umar

“…Africa has the potential to become an economic giant, yet we are aware of no papers modeling the net worth of billionaires in Africa. In this note, we fit the lognormal, Pareto type I, Fréchet, Weibull, generalized extreme value, gamma, log logistic, Burr, generalized Pareto and the generalized beta II distributions to the net worth of billionaires in Africa. …”
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Mexican billionaire invests millions in Latin American health by Theresa Braine

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Why are american billionaires buying up ruined newspapers? by I S Pilshchikov

“…The author of this article tries to analyze the reasons why billionaires in the United States are buying up loss making newspapers. …”
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The billionaire space race: Internet memes and the netizen response to space tourism by Joshua D. Bernstein

“…Using cultural references and humor, this critical response focused on the billionaire founders Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, downplayed their achievement, and questioned their environmental, financial, and social/ethical practices. …”
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The Rise and Fall of Billionaire siRNAs during Reproductive Development in Rice by Lili Wang, Dachao Xu, Longjun Zeng, Dong-Lei Yang

“…We named the highly expressed siRNAs as billionaire siRNAs (bill-siRNAs) and the less-expressed siRNAs as pauper siRNAs (pau-siRNAs). …”
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The Billionaires’ Road to Disappearance in Don Delillo’s Novels Cosmopolis and Zero K by Radu Surdulescu

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Monsters in our shared world: Aesthetic Action, and the billionaire creators of Historical Action by Simon Lindblom

“…Through examination of Naoki Urasawa’s anime series Monster and Pluto, the essay argues that seemingly innovative disruptions by tech billionaires typically enact Historical Action. This reinforces existing inequalities and imposes narrow, deterministic visions of a desired future “what the world should be”. …”
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Seeing a New Type of Economic Inequality Discourse: Inequality as Spectacle in the “Billionaire Space Race” by Michael Vaughan, David Schieferdecker

“…We argue for greater attention to other types of discourse characterized by emerging media logics like personalization, polycentrism, and hybridity. We analyze the billionaire space race—a 2021 media event in which 3 hyper-wealthy men traveled to space amid a pandemic—using mixed methods on Twitter and news media data. …”
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Globalization and marginalization in contemporary Asia: migration, class, and capitalism in Tash Aw’s Five Star Billionaire and We, the Survivors by Chi Miao

“…While Five Star Billionaire critiques the illusory promises of upward mobility for disenfranchised Malaysian migrants, We, the Survivors highlights the cyclical entrapment of migrant laborers within Malaysia’s racialized capitalist hierarchies. …”
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Nature, Land, and Sustainability: Exploring the Livelihood Strategies of Local Community and Development of “Billionaire Village” in Tuban Regency, Indonesia by Deti Rahmawati, Endang Susilowati

Subjects: “…billionaire village tuban…”
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Book Review: The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresiewicz by Jonathan Kuuskoski

“… Jonathan Kuuskoski reviews William Deresiewicz’s The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.   …”
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Angelique Haugerud, <em>No Billionaire Left Behind. Satirical Activism in America</em>, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2013, pp. 288 by Alexander Koensler

“…Recensione di Angelique Haugerud, No Billionaire Left Behind. Satirical Activism in America, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2013, pp. 288.…”
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Decoding the Source of Wealth Creation by Arpita Basak, A. Srihari Krishna

Subjects: “…billionaires…”
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A história de uma reviravolta no departamento de saúde da cidade de Nova Iorque by Eduardo H. Diniz

“… SAVING GOTHAM: A BILLIONAIRE MAYOR, ACTIVIST DOCTORS, AND THE FIGHT FOR EIGHT MILLION LIVES Dr. …”
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: THE MECHANISM OF VICTORY DONALD TRUMP ON ELECTION by Maxim Aleksandrovich Suchkov

“…Election of the extravagant billionaire Donald Trump has proved all forecasts wrong and became a total surprise for many. …”
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Patriarch Kirill and Ukraine by Anatolii M. Kolodnyi

“…Contributed to the coming to power in the Church of this, as it is called in Moscow, "ecclesiastical tobacco-vodka billionaire" acquired authority as a second person of the ROC, support of Russian power and controversy in the camp of opponents. …”
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DONALD TRUMP: MORBID SYMPTOM OF THE INTERREGNUM TRUMP AS TROPE by Lauren LANGMAN

“…His election was not due to economic hardships but rather due to his unique ability to mobilize three primary constituents of the republican party: its billionaire elites, evangelical Christians and racist white nationalists. …”
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The Scourging of Sark by David Lowenthal

“…The Channel Island of Sark (5.5 km2; population 500), Europe’s sole surviving feudal entity, was forced into democracy in 2008 following an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights by billionaire twins Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, tenants of the subsidiary island of Brecqhou. …”
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