Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality
The Top 20%
Authors: Mihályi, Péter, Szelényi, Iván
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-23
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Rent in Classical Economic, Social, and Political Theory
Pages 25-51
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Thirteen Types of Rent in the Globalized World
Pages 53-72
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Class Reproduction of the Upper Middle Class (Top 20%)
Pages 73-85
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Stages of Rent-Seeking Under Post-communism
Pages 87-101
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality
- Book Subtitle
- The Top 20%
- Authors
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- Péter Mihályi
- Iván Szelényi
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-03846-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-03846-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-03845-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 156
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
- Topics
