Wealth and the Wealthy : : Exploring and Tackling Inequalities between Rich and Poor / / Karen Rowlingson, Stephen D. McKay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Rowlingson, Karen,; McKay, Stephen D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (269 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Introduction -- Why wealth matters -- Why the wealthy matter -- What is wealth and who are the wealthy? -- The distribution of wealth -- The rich, the richer and the richest -- Towards a comprehensive policy on assets -- Social policy and the wealthy -- Conclusions -- References -- Index