-- Household debts -- Insurance and social welfare -- Expenditure and income -- Household wealth. … of Chinese households’ demographics, housing and financial assets, debt and credit constraints, income and expenditures … 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 …

to emerging ones and the increasing income inequality evident within many countries. Prospects for growth toward the mid … corruption -- Institutional creativity for happy high-income societies: can basic income-based reforms help to build them … -- Perspectives for growth and income equality in the European Monetary Union: 2012-2025 -- Effort and hours over the business cycle …

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including … sociological, economic and marketing aspects. The term ‘consumption’ is vague and even in academic disciplines the term is used in … a variety of ways. Consumption research asks how earnings and spending are related to each other. More generally …

discussing the relationship between fiscal policy and the distribution of income and wealth. Topics covered include the evolution … of income taxation since World War II; the turn toward value added taxation; the relationship between tax reform and the … Conservatives Shaped the Modern Tax State -- How They All Came to Love the VAT: Consumption Taxes, Big Business, and the Welfare …

asymmetric relations caused by the unequal distribution of income and wealth; iii) Power as associated to the monopolistic or … Power: Income, Wealth and Social Control -- Chapter 5: Elements of a Science of Power: Hobbes, Smith, and Ricardo -- Chapter …

Understanding the distribution of income and wealth in an economy has been a classic problem in economics for the last … hundred years. Apart from the rapidly decaying number density of people with their income crossing over to a robust power law … finance/income-tax departments of various countries, several robust features of the income distribution have been established …

economic catastrophe. The author makes the case that over the past three decades the rich have confiscated wealth and income …This book argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created deepening inequality and will lead to … unmeasured dimensions of inequality. He also takes aim at the economics profession, criticising the analytical blinders that …

desert? -- 4 Extreme inequality, well-being, freedom -- 5 Why worry about the super-rich? The reasons and possible remedies. … array of innovative policy prescriptions that are not punitive in intent and are not merely directed toward income …