NEW STEP BY STEP MAP FOR WHO IS THE RICHEST PERSON IN HISTORY

1% of US GDP at the time, this means that in nowadays’s terms Carnegie could well be worth involving $370bn to $400bn (£277bn to £300bn). That figure places him ahead of John D Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil corporation controlled ninety% of US oil production by 1880 and gives Carnegie a fortune worthy of greater than 2 times that of Jeff Bezo