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List of tables and figures | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. x |
About the authors | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xii |
Why wealth matters | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
From collective welfare to individual assets | p. 2 |
The role of assets in people's lives | p. 8 |
Is there an asset effect? | p. 12 |
Conclusions | p. 16 |
Why the wealthy matter | p. 19 |
Introduction | p. 19 |
The increasing concentration of income and wealth | p. 20 |
Is the concentration of income and wealth a social problem? | p. 25 |
Is the concentration of income and wealth good or bad for the economy? | p. 32 |
Un/equal opportunities and un/fair rewards | p. 37 |
Attitudes to the gap between rich and poor | p. 45 |
Conclusions | p. 49 |
What is wealth and who are the wealthy? | p. 53 |
Introduction | p. 53 |
Conceptualising and defining wealth | p. 53 |
Measuring wealth | p. 56 |
Conceptualising and defining the wealthy | p. 63 |
Measuring the wealthy | p. 74 |
Conclusions | p. 79 |
The distribution of wealth | p. 81 |
Introduction | p. 81 |
The distribution of wealth | p. 81 |
Combining income and assets | p. 92 |
The distribution of assets by age, ethnicity and region | p. 93 |
Gender and the within-household distribution of wealth | p. 101 |
Inheritance and unearned wealth | p. 107 |
Conclusions | p. 112 |
The rich, the richer and the richest | p. 115 |
Introduction | p. 115 |
The rich | p. 116 |
The richer | p. 126 |
The richest | p. 130 |
Philanthropy and charitable giving | p. 136 |
Conclusions | p. 143 |
Towards a comprehensive policy on assets | p. 145 |
Introduction | p. 145 |
The goals of a comprehensive policy on assets | p. 146 |
Asset-based welfare policies, proposals and perspectives | p. 153 |
Policies on housing wealth | p. 160 |
Pensions policy | p. 171 |
Taxing assets in the UK | p. 176 |
Within-household distribution of assets | p. 181 |
Conclusions | p. 183 |
Social policy and the wealthy | p. 187 |
Introduction | p. 187 |
The goals of policy on riches | p. 188 |
Equal opportunity policy | p. 194 |
Taxation policy | p. 199 |
Policies for original income and wealth | p. 210 |
Conclusions | p. 217 |
Conclusions | p. 219 |
References | p. 225 |
Index | p. 247 |
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