This book argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created deepening inequality and will lead to economic catastrophe. The author makes the case that over the past three decades the rich have confiscated wealth and income from the poor and middle class to a far greater...

This book provides a historical understanding of current debates over tax reform and offers a comparative framework for 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...

This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active...

This book is written in light of the latest developments in the field of multidimensional poverty measurement. It includes clear presentations of more than a dozen different quantitative techniques and provides empirical illustrations based on data sources from developed or developing countries

Introduction -- Restoring Europe’s luster -- Russian Federation: national and regional trends in regulatory burden and corruption -- Institutional creativity for happy high-income societies: can basic income-based reforms help to build them? -- Crisis in the Eurozone: some popular fallacies...

Survey design -- Household demographics and work characteristics -- Non-financial assets -- Household financial assets -- Household debts -- Insurance and social welfare -- Expenditure and income -- Household wealth.

Introduction -- The Revived Interest in the Problems of Income and Wealth Distribution -- Re-incorporating Distributional Issues Into the Main Body of Economic Analysis -- Aim and Contents of this Book -- The Parametric Approach to Income and Wealth Distributional Analysis -- The Idea of a...

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 for the very rich, known as the Pareto power-law,...

This book is the fifteenth volume in the renowned International Papers in Political Economy (IPPE) series which explores the latest developments in political economy. Containing contributions by experts in the field, this book focuses on topics that address the ongoing debate of inequalities in...