Wealth and the Wealthy

Wealth and the wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite a growing wealth gap.Aimed at a broad social science and public readership, this book draws on new data on wealth to answer the following key questions: What is wealth?Who has got it? Where might we draw a 'wealth line'?Who lies above it?And what might policy do about wealth and the wealthy? Using data sources from the HMRC to the Sunday Times Rich list, this book provides a comprehensive and critical discussion of these issues, and looks at potential policy responses, including 'asset-based' welfare and taxation.