Anxious Wealth analyzes practices of network building and deal-making among wealthy businessmen and government officials in urban China, documenting the changing values, lifestyles, gender relations, and consumption habits of China's new rich and new middle classes.

Intro -- ECONOMICS OF WEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- ECONOMICS OF WEALTH IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 RECENT TRENDS IN HOUSEHOLD WEALTH IN THE U.S.: RISING DEBT AND THE MIDDLE CLASS SQUEEZE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. DATA SOURCES AND METHODS -- 3. MEDIAN...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. HAVE SAVING RATES REALLY FALLEN? -- III. LIKELY IMPACT OF FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND LIBERALIZATION ON HOME EQUITY WITHDRAWAL ( HEW) AND SAVING -- IV. TRENDS IN HEWAND HOUSEHOLD SAVING ACROSS COUNTRIES -- V. HOW DOES HEW AFFECT HOUSEHOLD SAVING? -- VI....

This article outlines income and wealth distribution trends in Germany since the 19th century, compared to other Western industrialised countries. We first discuss the evolution of aggregate wealth-to-income ratios. We then explore how the concentration of income and wealth among the top...

... Taschenbuchausgabe des Titels von 2012 (ID-B 47/12) mit einem kurzen aktuellen Vorwort. Die "umfassende, grossenteils anspruchsvolle, ziemlich einmalige Darstellung der erschreckenden Wirklichkeit über ca. 1.200 Milliardäre und ihr unkontrollierbares privates Imperium der Machtausübung"...