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

• Main Authors: Mihályi, Péter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Szelényi, Iván (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic sociology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social policy.; Economic policy.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Social Policy.; Economic Policy.

"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...

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.