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The question is not, ‘why is it so hard to get rich’, but ‘why is it so easy for some people to get rich?’ Wealth Secrets of the One Per Cent is an exploration of how people become billionaires. It looks at what we can learn about business from the super-wealthy, from the Ancient World to modern emerging economies, via the American Industrialists, the ’90s dotcom boom and other key entrepreneurial moments in history. Global Economic Forecaster Sam Wilkin’s surprising conclusion is that despite superficial differences, from Mexican telecoms billionaires to Roman senators, their methods of wealth accumulation have a great deal in common. Behind almost every great fortune is a ‘wealth secret’–a moneymaking technique that involves some sort of scheme for defeating the forces of market competition. They’re not pretty, but then, who said making a billion was easy? Sam Wilkin is a senior advisor to Oxford Economics, one of the world’s foremost global forecasting and research consultancies, where he previously served as head of business research. He is also a senior advisor to Oxford Analytica, a strategic analysis and advisory firm that counts among its clients many global companies and over 25 world governments. Sam received his B.A. in economics from Eckerd College, where he was the 2004 alumni fellow, and his M.A. in international relations from the University of Chicago. He lives in New York and Oxford.
