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evidence and academic argument suggests that Britain is a long way from a meritocracy (Breen and Goldthorpe, 1999).For example, much of the wealth of many rich people is actually due to inheritance and other forms of unearned income ...
Using many data sources, this timely book provides a comprehensive discussion of issues of wealth, looking at potential policy responses, including 'asset-based' welfare and taxation.
One of the more interesting points about the book is that the author, in seeking to satisfy a seeming thirst on the part of the hoi polloi in how the other half lives, succeedswith some ironyin the shocking revelation that the masses are in ...