Inherited Wealth /

Inherited Wealth / / Jens Beckert.

How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. Bequeathing wealth is a vital ingredient of family solidarity. But does the reproduction of social inequality thr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Beckert, Jens,
TeilnehmendeR:
Dunlap, Thomas.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2008
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Right to Bequeath: Testamentary Freedom and the Individuality of Property
  • 3. Equality and Inclusion: The Inheritance Rights of the Family
  • 4. Political Structure and Inheritance Law: The Abolition of Entails
  • 5. Social Justice through Redistribution? The Taxation of Inheritance
  • 6. Conclusion: Discourses and Institutions
  • APPENDIX: THE METHOD OF CONTENT ANALYSIS OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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