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Wealth and the Wealthy – Exploring and Tackling In equalities between Rich and Poor de Karen Rowlingson

Wealth and the Wealthy – Exploring and Tackling In equalities between Rich and Poor

Autor Karen Rowlingson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 dec 2011
The wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite the growing gap between rich and poor. A much-needed step forward for the wealth debate, Wealth and the Wealthy draws on new data to answer the following key questions: What is wealth? Who has it? Where might we draw a wealth line? Who would be above it? And how should policy address wealth and the wealthy? Karen Rowlingson and Stephen McKay comprehensively and critically examine these issues and explore potential policy responses, including asset-based welfare and taxation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847423078
ISBN-10: 1847423078
Pagini: 269
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bristol University Press

Notă biografică

Karen Rowlingson is professor of social policy and director of the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management at the University of Birmingham. Stephen McKay is professor of social research in the School of Social Policy at the University of Birmingham.

Cuprins

List of tables and figures
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Introduction

Chapter One: Why wealth matters
    Introduction
    From collective welfare to individual assets
    The role of assets in people’s lives
    Is there an asset effect?
    Conclusions
Chapter Two: Why the wealthy matter
    Introduction
    The increasing concentration of income and wealth
    Is the concentration of income and wealth a social problem?
    Is the concentration of wealth good or bad for the economy?
    Un/equal opportunities and un/fair rewards
    Attitudes to the gap between the rich and the poor
    Conclusions
Chapter Three: What is wealth and who are the wealthy?
    Introduction
    Conceptualising and defining wealth
    Measuring wealth
    Conceptualising and defining the wealthy
    Measuring the wealthy
    Conclusions
Chapter Four: The distribution of wealth
    Introduction
    The distribution of wealth
    Combining income and assets
    The distribution of assets by age, ethnicity and region
    Gender and the within-household distribution of wealth
    Inheritance and unearned wealth
    Conclusions
Chapter Five: The rich, the richer and the richest
    Introduction
    The rich
    The richer
    The richest
    Philanthropy and charitable giving
    Conclusions
Chapter Six: Towards a comprehensive social policy on assets
    Introduction
    The goal of a comprehensive policy on assets
    Asset-based welfare policies, proposals and perspectives
    Policies on housing wealth
    Pensions policy
    Taxing assets in the UK
    Within-household distribution of assets
    Conclusions
Chapter Seven: Social policy and the wealthy
    Introduction
    The goals of policy on riches
    Equal opportunity policy
    Taxation policy
    Policies for original income and wealth
    Conclusions

Conclusions
References
Index