Wealth and the Wealthy : Exploring and Tackling Inequalities between Rich and Poor - Karen Rowlingson

Wealth and the Wealthy

Exploring and Tackling Inequalities between Rich and Poor

By: Karen Rowlingson, Stephen D. McKay

Hardcover | 1 February 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Wealth and the wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite a growing wealth gap.Aimed at a broad social science and public readership, this book draws on new data on wealth to answer the following key questions: What is wealth?Who has got it? Where might we draw a 'wealth line'?Who lies above it?And what might policy do about wealth and the wealthy? Using data sources from the HMRC to the Sunday Times Rich list, this book provides a comprehensive and critical discussion of these issues, and looks at potential policy responses, including 'asset-based' welfare and taxation.

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"Now is the time for a serious social policy analysis of wealth and the wealthy. This illuminating book provides both the data and a clear-sighted discussion of the issues." Jane Millar, University of Bath
"A calm and dispassionate introduction to the facts about wealth in Britain, providing essential context for many of the most important and urgent policy debates today." John Hills, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics
"This thoughtful and far-reaching critical analysis of the 'problem of riches' is a timely contribution to the debate on inequality. It deserves to be widely read." Professor the Baroness (Ruth) Lister of Burtersett, Loughborough University

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