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

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.

• | Author: Péter Mihályi, Iván Szelényi
• | Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 163 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 3030038459
• | ISBN-13: 9783030038458