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Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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 issues in how to measure wealth in the first place. A Century of Wealth in America is not designed to advance one overarching argument; rather, its aim is to...
Author
Publisher
Russell Sage Foundation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this book, the authors ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens -- and their answers may surprise you. Drawing on evidence from 20 countries over the last 200 years, the book provides the broadest and most indepth history of progressive taxation available. The authors argue that governments don't tax the rich just...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth. More than one hundred and fifty years later, that number has barely budged. The Color of Money seeks to explain the stubborn persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. With the civil rights movement in full swing, President Nixon promoted...
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