Wealth
$136.90
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
18 December 2020
Summary
The pursuit of wealth has captivated people’s attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social research, the way in which wealth is accumulated and unequally distributed has largely been neglected, remaining hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to address this blind spot in the academic discourse.
In accessible prose, Yuval Elmelech explains how personal wealth differs fundamentally from other conventional measures of socioeconomic status and why it has becom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745697864 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745697860 |
| Author: | Yuval Elmelech |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 18 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 155mm x 213mm |
| Series: | Economy and Society |
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Critics Review
“Elmelech provides an engaging and comprehensive examination of one of today’s most pressing social problems. A must-read for anyone interested in wealth ownership and inequality and the policies that attempt to address asset poverty.”
—Lisa A. Keister, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
“Elmelech moves considerations of wealth from a purely economic context to encompass sociological insights about institutional, demographic, and intergenerational factors that influence household accumulations and inequality. Theoretically profound and empirically comprehensive. A fitting companion to Piketty’s seminal volume, Capital.”
—Seymour Spilerman, Co-Director, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, Columbia University
Yuval Elmelech
Yuval Elmelech is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bard College and Research Associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.
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