Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, is worth $117 billion. L'Oreal SA heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, the richest woman, has $54 billion. But how do their fortunes compare with those of past plutocrats? There are those who could claim to be richer. John D. Rockefeller made about $1.5 billion in his career, according to his 1937 New York Times obit-about $26 billion in today's dollars. A better comparison, says Samuel Williamson, an economist who runs measuringworth.com, might be "relative output," the ratio of wealth to gross domestic product. Rockefeller's $1.5 billion was about 1.6% of the economy in 1937. Were he to own the same percentage today, his fortune would be almost triple Bezos'. Here's what some of history's richest people at the height of their wealth might be worth now using this approach.
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机译：世界上最富有的人杰夫贝斯，价值1170亿美元。 L'Oreal Sa Heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers，最富有的妇女，拥有540亿美元。但他们的财富与过去的浮雕人有何比较？有些人可以声称更丰富。 John D. Rockefeller根据他的1937年纽约时报大约约260亿美元，在今天的美元兑现的职业生涯中制作了约15亿美元。更好的比较，说明摩尔·威廉姆森（Samuel Williadms）是一个经济学家运行MedowWorth.com，可能是“相对产出”，财富与国内生产总值的比率。洛克菲勒的1937年的15亿美元约为经济的1.6％。他今天是否拥有相同的百分比，他的财富将是几乎是三倍的bezos'。这是一些历史上最富有的人在他们财富高度的最富有的人现在可能值得使用这种方法。
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