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Chapter 1: They’ve ‘never had it so good’: the rise and rise of the super-rich and wealth inequality
Jonathan V. Beaverstock
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Iain Hay
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29 Jan 2016
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Social and Political Science 2016
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Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich
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Iain Hay
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Jonathan V. Beaverstock
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29 Jan 2016
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Chapter 1: They’ve ‘never had it so good’: the rise and rise of the super-rich and wealth inequality
Chapter 2: Reconsidering the super-rich: variations, structural conditions and urban consequences
PART I: Wealth, Self and Society
Chapter 3: Historical geographies of wealth: opportunities, institutions and accumulation, c. 1800–1930
Chapter 4: On plutonomy: economy, power and the wealthy few in the second Gilded Age
Chapter 5: Interrogating the legitimacy of extreme wealth: a moral economic perspective
Chapter 6: Billionaire philanthropy: ‘decaf capitalism’
Chapter 7: Making money and making a self: the moral career of entrepreneurs
Chapter 8: Taking up Caletrío’s challenge: silence and the construction of wealth eliteness in Jamie Johnson’s documentary film Born Rich
Chapter 9: ‘One time I’ma show you how to get rich!’ Rap music, wealth and the rise of the hip-hop mogul
Chapter 10: Biographies of illicit super-wealth
PART II: Living Wealthy
Chapter 11: Capital city? London’s housing markets and the ‘super-rich’
Chapter 12: The residential spaces of the super-rich
Chapter 13: Reconfiguring places – wealth and the transformation of rural areas
Chapter 14: Performing wealth and status: observing super-yachts and the super-rich in Monaco
Chapter 15: Flights of indulgence (or how the very wealthy fly): the aeromobile patterns and practices of the super-rich
Chapter 16: Looking at luxury: consuming luxury fashion in global cities
Chapter 17: The luxury of nature: the environmental consequences of super-rich lives
PART III: Wealth and Power
Chapter 18: Attracting wealth: crafting immigration policy to attract the rich
Chapter 19: Sovereign wealth and the nation-state
Chapter 20: Super-rich capitalism: managing and preserving private wealth management in the offshore world
Chapter 21: Troubling tax havens: multijurisdictional arbitrage and corporate tax footprint reduction
Chapter 22: No change there! Wealth and oil
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Economics and Finance
Regional Economics
Geography
Economic Geography
Human Geography
Urban and Regional Studies
Regional Economics
Regional Studies
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