Author: Jack Lawrence Luzkow
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319939947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK. It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class—the super-rich—is based on income from ownership or control of scarce assets, or assets artificially made scarce. As a result, the super-rich reap much of their wealth from patents, monopolies, and subsidies. Their banks retain the right to speculate on risky derivatives, and their credit-card companies are not limited by usury laws that reduce interest rates. The super-rich have lowered (or escaped) inheritance taxes, shifted much of their income to lower taxed capital gains, practiced wage theft, fought minimum wage laws, outsourced jobs, and resorted to temps and contract labor to avoid unions and decent wages. They use tax havens where trillions of dollars remain untaxed, transfer profits of their intellectual and financial property to subsidiaries in low-tax regimes, and defend for-profit health insurance that is unaffordable and inequitable for millions. This book states in qualitative and quantitative terms how expensive the super-rich have become, why they are unsustainable for the rest of us, and what the way forward to greater economic equality may be. In sum, the super-rich are unaffordable.
Monopoly Restored
Author: Jack Lawrence Luzkow
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319939947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK. It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class—the super-rich—is based on income from ownership or control of scarce assets, or assets artificially made scarce. As a result, the super-rich reap much of their wealth from patents, monopolies, and subsidies. Their banks retain the right to speculate on risky derivatives, and their credit-card companies are not limited by usury laws that reduce interest rates. The super-rich have lowered (or escaped) inheritance taxes, shifted much of their income to lower taxed capital gains, practiced wage theft, fought minimum wage laws, outsourced jobs, and resorted to temps and contract labor to avoid unions and decent wages. They use tax havens where trillions of dollars remain untaxed, transfer profits of their intellectual and financial property to subsidiaries in low-tax regimes, and defend for-profit health insurance that is unaffordable and inequitable for millions. This book states in qualitative and quantitative terms how expensive the super-rich have become, why they are unsustainable for the rest of us, and what the way forward to greater economic equality may be. In sum, the super-rich are unaffordable.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319939947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK. It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft. Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class—the super-rich—is based on income from ownership or control of scarce assets, or assets artificially made scarce. As a result, the super-rich reap much of their wealth from patents, monopolies, and subsidies. Their banks retain the right to speculate on risky derivatives, and their credit-card companies are not limited by usury laws that reduce interest rates. The super-rich have lowered (or escaped) inheritance taxes, shifted much of their income to lower taxed capital gains, practiced wage theft, fought minimum wage laws, outsourced jobs, and resorted to temps and contract labor to avoid unions and decent wages. They use tax havens where trillions of dollars remain untaxed, transfer profits of their intellectual and financial property to subsidiaries in low-tax regimes, and defend for-profit health insurance that is unaffordable and inequitable for millions. This book states in qualitative and quantitative terms how expensive the super-rich have become, why they are unsustainable for the rest of us, and what the way forward to greater economic equality may be. In sum, the super-rich are unaffordable.
England Under the Stuarts
Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Momentous Issues
Author: George Henry Shibley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia
Author: Hualing Fu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424813
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424813
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.
Study of Monopoly Power
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Study of Monopoly Power
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 14. Reviews effectiveness of antitrust laws, and suggested revisions to the laws from representatives of educational institutions, business and government; pt. 2A-B, Reviews economic concentration and monopolistic practices relation to procurement practices, small businesses, patent right restrictions, Federal transportation rate-making regulations, and special antitrust exemptions. Includes summary and digest of testimony for parts 2-A and 2-B (p. 1-160); pt.4A, Includes digest of testimony (p. 1-65); pt.5, Considers legislation to make fines for certain antitrust violations triple the amount of damages; pt.6A, Reviews newsprint shortages and industry economic concentration. Focuses on Canadian and Newfoundland newsprint export and production practices' impact on domestic industry. Includes digest of testimony (p. 1-85).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 14. Reviews effectiveness of antitrust laws, and suggested revisions to the laws from representatives of educational institutions, business and government; pt. 2A-B, Reviews economic concentration and monopolistic practices relation to procurement practices, small businesses, patent right restrictions, Federal transportation rate-making regulations, and special antitrust exemptions. Includes summary and digest of testimony for parts 2-A and 2-B (p. 1-160); pt.4A, Includes digest of testimony (p. 1-65); pt.5, Considers legislation to make fines for certain antitrust violations triple the amount of damages; pt.6A, Reviews newsprint shortages and industry economic concentration. Focuses on Canadian and Newfoundland newsprint export and production practices' impact on domestic industry. Includes digest of testimony (p. 1-85).
Study of Monopoly Power
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trusts, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trusts, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Study of Monopoly Power
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 2466
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 14
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 2466
Book Description
Committee Serial No. 14
The Yale Review
Author: George Park Fisher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England
Author: J. Masschaele
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061616X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book portrays the great variety of work that medieval English juries carried out while highlighting the dramatic increase in demands for jury service that occurred during this period.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061616X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book portrays the great variety of work that medieval English juries carried out while highlighting the dramatic increase in demands for jury service that occurred during this period.
England and the Slave Trade, 1562-1713
Author: Marion Jane McKenzie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description