Who Gets What?: Analysing Economic Inequality in AustraliaThis 2007 book addresses important contemporary concerns about social justice. It presents detailed economic evidence, but analyses it in a manner that is engaging and readily accessible to the non-specialist reader. Who Gets What? examines what has been happening to incomes and wealth in Australia, what causes increased economic inequality, and the possibility of creating a more egalitarian society. It looks at who is rich, which social groups are still in poverty, and the policies that could redistribute income and wealth more effectively. |
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Contents
| 30 | |
Chapter Three | 44 |
Analysing the wealth of the nation | 46 |
Overall ownership of wealth | 48 |
How concentrated is wealth? | 49 |
Its in the bank | 52 |
Wealth in superannuation | 54 |
Property is wealth | 55 |
Chapter Eight | 148 |
Inequality as business as usual | 149 |
Neoliberalism | 153 |
Employment and industrial relations | 156 |
Whose choices? | 158 |
Discrimination | 161 |
Conclusion | 168 |
Chapter Nine | 169 |
Inheriting wealth | 57 |
the dark side of wealth? | 60 |
Chapter Four | 64 |
The wealth of the wealthy | 67 |
Conclusion | 78 |
Chapter Five | 79 |
absolute or relative? | 80 |
Multidimensional poverty and | 84 |
Is poverty declining or growing? | 86 |
Poverty and age | 89 |
in poverty | 92 |
Solo poverty | 95 |
Indigenous peoples poverty | 96 |
Immigrants and refugees in poverty | 98 |
Poverty among people with | 101 |
Chapter Six | 104 |
Urban inequality | 105 |
Regional dynamics | 118 |
Chapter Seven | 126 |
Socialisation or rational choice? | 137 |
Conclusion | 147 |
Dont worry be happy | 170 |
Income and happiness | 172 |
Income inequality and happiness | 176 |
Conclusion | 183 |
Chapter Ten | 184 |
Economic impacts | 185 |
Social impacts | 190 |
Political impacts | 194 |
Environmental impacts | 196 |
Inequality and public health | 197 |
Conclusion | 199 |
Chapter Eleven | 200 |
Do it yourself? | 201 |
A national land tax? | 207 |
Getting to the source | 210 |
Guaranteed minimum income? | 214 |
Jobs for all | 217 |
Dealing with discrimination | 220 |
Chapter Twelve | 223 |
Perpetuating inequality | 224 |
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| Title | Who Gets What?: Analysing Economic Inequality in Australia |
| Authors | Frank Stilwell, Kirrily Jordan |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 113946342X, 9781139463423 |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / General Business & Economics / Statistics Political Science / General Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy |
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