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A century of wealth in America /
Edward Wolff, one of the country's leading experts on household wealth, here provides a comprehensive study of wealth in America since 1910. The century brought shifting patterns in the ownership of wealth; Wolff explains the changes, offers ideas about how to reduce inequality, and explores is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Recent developments in personal wealth: Plan of the book and historical backdrop
- Trends in household wealth, 1962 to 2013
- Changing portfolio composition and the rate of return on household wealth
- International comparisons of household wealth inequality
- II. Mechanisms behind changing wealth inequality: Deconstructing wealth trends, 1983-2013
- Age-wealth profiles and the life cycle model: implications for wealth accumulation
- Inheritances and the distribution of wealth
- The role of social security and private pensions
- III. Who are the rich and the poor?: Wealth differences among socio-economic groups
- Who are the rich? A demographic profile of high-income and high-wealth Americans
- The persistence of asset poverty
- IV. Wealth over the long term: Long-term trends in aggregate household wealth
- Long-term trends in the concentration of household wealth
- V. Tax policy and conclusion: Wealth taxation
- Summary of principal findings and concluding comments.