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Informationen zum Autor Anthony B. Atkinson was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Klappentext Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades. To reduce them, we need fresh ideas that move beyond taxes on the wealthy. Anthony B. Atkinson offers ambitious new policies in technology, employment, social security, sharing of capital, and taxation, and he defends them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction. Zusammenfassung Inequality and poverty have returned with a vengeance in recent decades. To reduce them! we need fresh ideas that move beyond taxes on the wealthy. Anthony B. Atkinson offers ambitious new policies in technology! employment! social security! sharing of capital! and taxation! and he defends them against the common arguments and excuses for inaction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Diagnosis 1. Setting the Scene 2. Learning from History 3. The Economics of Inequality A Summing-Up So Far Part Two: Proposals for Action 4. Technological Change and Countervailing Power 5. Employment and Pay in the Future 6. Capital Shared 7. Progressive Taxation 8. Social Security for All Proposals to Reduce the Extent of Inequality Part Three: Can It Be Done? 9. Shrinking the Cake? 10. Globalisation Prevents Action? 11. Can We Afford It? The Way Forward Glossary Notes Contents in Detail List of Tables and Figures Figure Sources Index ...
