Why we can't afford the rich
By: Andrew Sayer
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9781447320791
Subjects: Rich people; Equality; Wealth; Income distribution
Description: "Exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others, through the control of property and money"--Back Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-414) and index.
Table of contents: title: A guide to wealth extraction; title: Putting the rich in context: what determines what people get?; title: How the rich got richer: their part in the crisis; title: Rule by the rich, for the rich; title: Ill-gotten and ill-spent: from consumption to CO2; title: Conclusions.