Rule by the rich may look inevitable, but history shows it’s not. From ancient Greece to New Deal America to today’s Hungary, democracies have found ways to separate private fortunes from public power.
David Lingelbach and Valentina Rodríguez Guerra
David Lingelbach is a professor of entrepreneurship at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore. Valentina Rodríguez Guerra is a doctoral candidate in management at Colombia’s Universidad de los Andes. They are co-founders of The Center for the Study of Oligarchs, an independent research organization, and authors of Games Without Thrones: 8 Leadership Lessons From Oligarchs.
