Research indicates that positions of very high private wealth can often be maintained by
families over many generations. This article puts front and center the institutions …

For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. Here, Bob Pease argues that
privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical …

'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're
winning.'Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, 2006 (quoted in Stein 2006) In an …

What do we know about the current realities of work and its likely futures? What choices
must we make and how will they affect those futures? Many books about the future of work …

The article reviews the literature on the rich, the affluent and the top income earners focusing
on the determinants of affluence or richness. The review surveys empirical results about the …

This paper exhorts geographers to give critical attention to the super‐rich, defined as
individuals with investable assets in excess of 1million.Thesuper …

This article analyses the changing socio-economic profile of the “multicultural” section of the
Australian population, in the past officially referred to as people of “non-English-speaking …

The richest 1 percent in the United States is a largely unexplored group, despite its ever-
increasing share of the national wealth. The Forbes roster of the richest Americans has often …

Since the managerial thesis (notably Berle and Means' classic study), the role of the family in
capitalist enterprise and organization has often been viewed as an anachronism, the …

It is often asserted that the ruling elite in Western capitalist economies now consists of liberal
intellectuals and their media sympathisers. By contrast this book looks at the real elite in …