Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book analyses the processes through which the modern forms of large fortunes are amassed. Despite the recent spate of governmental and non-governmental interest in inequality (be it wealth or income), the most privileged and fortunate have not generated much interest in mainstream economics. As the issue of wealth accumulation is multifaceted, the proposed book will not merely be an exercise in business history but deals with the issue from multiple perspectives, accordingly employing alternative research methods. Broadly, the trends and dynamics in high-tier wealth accumulation are coupled to the economic, political and social mechanisms that have been in play for at least half a century or more in some parts of the world. This approach leads to potential policy implications since much of the debate on wealth distribution centres on the extent to which wealth has been ‘justly’ attained. Further, how wealth is distributed in the capitalist system can have an impact upon economic growth.This book offers an alternative perspective on why we have witnessed the growth of a new social class of ultra rich. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers in international economic bodies.

Wealth. --- Affluence --- Distribution of wealth --- Fortunes --- Riches --- Business --- Economics --- Finance --- Capital --- Money --- Property --- Well-being --- Welfare economics. --- Personal finance. --- Pension plans. --- Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy. --- Personal Finance/Wealth Management/Pension Planning. --- Finance, Personal --- Financial management, Personal --- Financial planning, Personal --- Personal finance --- Personal financial management --- Personal financial planning --- Financial literacy --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Planning --- Pensions.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In contrast to the debates of the past, which focused mainly on income inequality and the related elements of injustice, the recent interest in economic inequality focuses on its effects on economic growth and social development. New research is an important element of these recent debates: a historical approach that contextualizes inequality with reference to social relations, institutions, access to power and its cultural legitimacy can facilitate the understanding of the mechanisms that lead to inequality and its effects.

History of Europe --- wealth distribution --- economic inequality --- european history --- economic history --- pre-industrial economic history --- income distribution --- Income distribution --- Wealth --- Economic development --- History --- Europe --- Economic conditions --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Affluence --- Distribution of wealth --- Fortunes --- Riches --- Business --- Finance --- Capital --- Money --- Property --- Well-being --- Distribution of income --- Income inequality --- Inequality of income --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Disposable income --- economische geschiedenis

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Il Siracide si caratterizza per l'elevata frequenza della coppia lessicale poverta-ricchezza. Questo binomio si concentra all'interno di pochi brani la cui analisi delinea un contesto segnato da diverse tensioni: conflitti non solo sociali, ma anche politici, religiosi e culturali. Lo sguardo di Ben Sira sulle contraddizioni della sua societa e, da un lato, realista e critico, dall'altro ottimista e fiducioso: egli denuncia l'ingiustizia e rifiuta le soluzioni violente; il superamento delle tensioni richiede piuttosto un'azione educativa nei confronti delle nuove generazioni. I valori raccomandati (prudenza, umilta, solidarieta generosa, salda fiducia in Dio) sono quelli tradizionali della Torah e sono fatti ruotare attorno a due cardini fondamentali: la sapienza e il timore del Signore. Questa profonda fedelta alla tradizione biblica consente a Ben Sira di assimilare alcuni elementi ellenistici senza tradire la fede di Israele nel Dio misericordioso e giusto, schierato in difesa di deboli e oppressi. In questo modo, il suo messaggio attorno al binomio poverta-ricchezza raccoglie l'eredita dell'Antico Testamento e prepara il cambiamento di sensibilita che culminera nella rivelazione cristiana.

Wealth --- Poverty --- 223.7 --- Poverty (Virtue) --- 223.7 La Sagesse. Ecclesiastique --- 223.7 Wijsheid. Wijsheid van Jesus Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) --- La Sagesse. Ecclesiastique --- Wijsheid. Wijsheid van Jesus Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) --- Biblical teaching --- Bible. --- Ben Sira (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Book of Ben Sira (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Book of Sirach (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Ecclesiasticus (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Ḥokhmat Shimʻon ben Sira (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Ḥokhmat Yehoshuʻa ben Sira (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Jesus Sirach (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Sefer Ben Sira (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Sefer Ḥokhmat Yehoshuʻa ben Sira (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Sirach (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Sirachbuch (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Wisdom of Ben Sira (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Wisdom of Sirach (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Words of Simeon ben Jeshua (Book of the Apocrypha) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Pauvres --- Riches --- Armut --- Reichtum