Overview
Focuses on the top earning 20% of society, rather than the top 1 or 0.1%
Addresses the role of rent in issues such as class reproduction, wealth, sources of social instability and inequality
Provides a “post-classical” narrative of political economy
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Mihályi and Szelényi provide a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth, offering a careful examination of various sources of rent in contemporary societies, and considering several policy options to reduce inequality in order to preserve the meritocratic nature of liberal democracies.
While Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality acknowledges the rapid and disturbing increase of incomes and wealth in the top 1 or 0.1%, it focuses on the increasing rent component of incomes and wealth in the top 20% as even more consequential. The attention to cutting-edge issues on inequality in macroeconomics, political science and sociology will appeal to social scientists interested in income distribution and wealth accumulation.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Péter Mihályi is Professor in the Department of Macroeconomics, Corvinus University of Budapest, and Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Hungary.
Iván Szelényi is William Graham Sumner Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Yale University, and Max Weber Emeritus Professor of Social Sciences, New York University, Abu Dhabi.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality
Book Subtitle: The Top 20%
Authors: Péter Mihályi, Iván Szelényi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03846-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03845-8Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03846-5Published: 29 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 156
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Economic Policy