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

"This is an original account of two of the most important social trends today: rising income inequality and declining class mobility. Underlining the contemporary relevance of classical economics and sociology, the authors show how rent-seeking has created a new elite that threatens democracy a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mihályi, Péter (Author), Szelényi, Iván (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Economic sociology.
Social structure.
Equality.
Social policy.
Economic policy.
Economic Sociology.
Social Structure.
Social Policy.
Economic Policy.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Rent in Classical Economic, Social and Political Theory
  • Chapter 3: Thirteen Types of Rent in the Globalized World
  • Chapter 4: Class Reproduction of the Upper Middle Class (Top 20%)
  • Chapter 5: Stages of Rent-Seeking Under Post-Communism
  • Chapter 6: Rent-Securing by the Nation-States and Rent Destruction by Globalization
  • Chapter 7: Theoretical and Policy Conclusions.

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