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Wealth and The Wealthy in the Modern World (Routledge Revivals)

About this title

Routledge Revivals reissue of the 1980 edited collection examining the careers of the very wealthy and the distribution of wealth across major Western nations since the Industrial Revolution. The essays compare how wealth was created, controlled and maintained in different countries and consider social mobility into top wealth and income brackets.

Intended audience

  • economic history students
  • social history postgraduates
  • researchers on wealth and inequality

Subject classification

  • Economic History
  • Social History
  • Modern History

Scope

  • wealth distribution since the Industrial Revolution
  • comparative national wealth-holding
  • social mobility into elite brackets
  • wealthy elites and society
  • industrial and financial fortunes

Bibliographic details

Title
Wealth and The Wealthy in the Modern World (Routledge Revivals)
Year
2024
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN
9781032707853
Catalogue authors
W. D. Rubinstein

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