Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Richard Wilkinson
- one Introduction
- Part One A guide to wealth extraction
- Part Two Putting the rich in context: what determines what people get?
- Part Three How the rich got richer: their part in the crisis
- Part Four Rule by the rich, for the rich
- Part Five Ill-gotten and ill-spent: from consumption to CO2
- Conclusions
- Afterword
- Notes and sources
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Richard Wilkinson
- one Introduction
- Part One A guide to wealth extraction
- Part Two Putting the rich in context: what determines what people get?
- Part Three How the rich got richer: their part in the crisis
- Part Four Rule by the rich, for the rich
- Part Five Ill-gotten and ill-spent: from consumption to CO2
- Conclusions
- Afterword
- Notes and sources
- Index
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- Why We Can't Afford the Rich , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2014