most effectively, surplus wealth is most plentiful, and the dominant class rules supreme. During such periods of stability … hegemony. They are monuments to the wealth and power of those who ruled their world. This first volume provides an introduction … to the study and a review of wealth accumulation over the past millennium. There follow three case studies of iconic …

-- Household debts -- Insurance and social welfare -- Expenditure and income -- Household wealth. … vivid picture of wealth disparity, real estate market developments, social welfare status, household financial behaviors and …

Introduction -- The Revived Interest in the Problems of Income and Wealth Distribution -- Re … and Wealth Distributional Analysis -- The Idea of a Parametric Model for Income and Wealth Distributions -- Brief History … of the Models for Studying Income and Wealth Distributions -- The κ-Generalized Distribution -- Underlying Stochastic …

wide variety of issues are addressed, including the implications of the massive movement of wealth from advanced countries …

, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage … theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class-the super-rich-is based on income from ownership or control of scarce … assets, or assets artificially made scarce. As a result, the super-rich reap much of their wealth from patents, monopolies …

This book focuses on wealth inequality trends in the North Atlantic Anglo-sphere countries of Canada, the United … Kingdom, and the United States over the period from 1668 to 2013: a wider perspective than generally used when wealth … inequality is discussed. This book demonstrates that it is important to put current dimensions of wealth inequality into …

Nowadays remembered mostly through Adam Smith’s references to the short-lived Ayr Bank in the Wealth of Nations, the …