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The Rich List
Graeme Hunt
其他書名
Wealth and Enterprise in New Zealand, 1820-2000
出版Reed Books, 2000
ISBN07900074019780790007403
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RZrWAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The controversy generated by the National Business Review's annual Rich List testifies to New Zealanders' conflicting attitudes aobut wealth. For a nation founded on solid settler principles of earnest endeavour, modesty in achievement and classlessness, making money has long presented something of a dilemma. That ambivalence is shown by the absence of a literature celebrating the endeavours of business innovators in this country. The Rich List goes some way toward redressing that imbalance. Building on his experience as editor of the NBR list since 1994, journalist Graeme Hunt here examines the lives and legacies of New Zealanders who have made their mark on our history through their efforts at wealth-creation. The Rich List starts with the earliest days of European settlement and follows the changing patterns of wealth-creation through to the present day, encountering a diverse range of talent, hard work and luck along the way. There are the pioneer whalers and runholders in the south, the merchants and traders in the north; business dynasties like the Todds, Fletchers and Myers, go-it-alone entrepreneurs like Sir Robert Kerridge and Sir Robert Jones; financial kingpins like Sir Michael Fay and Alan Gibbs, entertainment rich like Sam Neill and Lucy Lawless; and a good many unassuming and hard-working businesspeople to boot. Packed full of information, The Rich List is generously illustrated with historical and contemporary photos, and features ingenious 'rich lists' of the wealthiest individuals form 1840 to 2000. Also included are the latest lists of individuals and families worth more than $10 million, and an account of the fast-emerging class of sporting rich. For anyone interested in the history of the wealthy in New Zealand, the networks they move in or what they do with their earnings, The Rich List will be compelling reading.