Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178347405X ISBN 13: 9781783474059

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Fewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world's population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a landmark multidisciplinary evaluation of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes that underpin super-wealth generation and its unequal distribution.

Drawing on international case studies, leading experts from across the social sciences offer 22 accessible and coherently organized chapters, which critically analyze a range of topics including:

• the legitimacy of extreme wealth from a moral economic perspective
• biographies of illicit super-wealth
• London's housing markets
• how the very wealthy fly
• the environmental consequences of super-rich lives
• crafting immigration policies to attract the rich.

Students and scholars studying a host of topics such as development studies, economics, geography, history, political science and sociology will find this book eminently engaging. It will also be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations and NGOs concerned with wealth and income distributions.

Contributors: R. Atkinson, J.V. Beaverstock, L. Budd, R. Burrows, L. Crewe, A. Davison, A.D. Dixon, R. Forrest, D.R. Green, S. Hall, T. Hall, I. Hay, I. Kapoor, S.Y. Koh, G. Mangraviti, A. Martin, I.A. Osuoka, A. Owens, R. Palan, C. Paris, D. Rhodes, A. Sayer, P.G. Schervish, S. Schulz, J.R. Short, E. Spence, A. Watson, B. Wissink, M. Woods, A. Zalik

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Iain Hay, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor, Flinders University, Australia and Jonathan V. Beaverstock, University of Bristol, UK

Review:

'All you ever wanted to know about the super-rich but were too embarrassed to ask - because we are not really supposed to talk that much about money, especially not about people with huge amounts of money, people who are so very far above us. Thankfully nearly three dozen scholars have decided to break the usual taboos and reveal all about our wealthiest of fellow human beings. Just what have they done for us, how did they get so rich, what is their individual carbon footprint and so much more. The new gilded age is coming to an end. It begins to end as we study those who live in the most gilded of cages, no longer in admiration but with great inquisitiveness, and accuracy.' --Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, UK

'Very highly recommended for both community and academic library reference collections, Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich will also prove to be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations, governmental policy makers, NGO activists, and the non-specialist general reader concerned with wealth and income distributions.' --The Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178347405X
• ISBN 13: 9781783474059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Hay Iain, Beaverstock Jonathan V.