The contributions in this book highlight, contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by authors from a variety...

This book addresses the central challenge facing rich countries: how to promote growth and prosperity that is widely shared rather than concentrated at the top. It identifies structures and policies that are associated with limiting the rise in inequality and promoting income growth

Since colonisation New Zealand has been mythologised as a land of milk and honey a promised land of natural abundance and endless opportunity. In the twenty first century the country has become literally a land of milk and honey as agricultural exports from such commodities dominate the national...

Die jüngsten finanz- und gesellschaftspolitischen Ereignisse rücken Fragen zur Bedeutung von Wohlstand, Reichtum und Vermögen in ein neues Licht. So ist in den letzten Jahren in vielen Gesellschaften der Anteil Wohlhabender und Reicher gestiegen und damit auch die Notwendigkeit, ihre...