Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality: The Top 20%

By Peter Mihalyi and Iván Szelényi

Mih?lyi and Szel?nyi 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030038459
• ISBN13: 9783030038458
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"