Inheritances And The Distribution Of Wealth Or Whatever Happened To The Great Inheritance Boom Scholars Choice Edition

Author : Edward N. Wolff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781298049292
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth Or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom? - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Edward N. Wolff and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Edward N. Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199353964
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inheriting Wealth in America written by Edward N. Wolff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inheritances are often regarded as a societal "evil," enabling great fortunes to be passed from one generation to another, thus exacerbating wealth inequality and reducing wealth mobility. Discussions of inheritances in America bring to mind the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, and "trust fund babies"---people who receive enough money through inheritances or gifts that they do not have any need to work during their lifetime. Though these are, of course, extreme outliers, inheritances in America have a reputation for being a way the rich keep getting richer. In Inheriting Wealth in America, Edward Wolff seeks to counter these misconceptions with data and arguments that illuminate who inherits what in the United States and what results from these wealth transfers. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances---a triennial survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Board that contains detailed information on household wealth, inheritances, and gifts---as well as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and a simulation model over years 1989 to 2010, Wolff reports six major findings on the state of inheritances in America. First, wealth transfers (inheritances and gifts) accounted for less than one quarter of household wealth. However, for persons age 75 and over, the figure was about two-fifths since they have more time to receive wealth transfers. Indirect evidence, derived from the simulation model, indicates a figure closer to two-thirds at end of life - probably the best estimate. Second, despite prognostications of a coming "inheritance boom," it has not materialized yet. Only a small (and statistically insignificant) uptick in average wealth transfers was observed over the period, and wealth transfers were actually down as a share of household wealth. Third, while wealth transfers are greater in dollar amount for richer households than poorer ones, they constitute a smaller share of the accumulated wealth of the rich. Fourth, contrary to popular belief, inheritances and gifts, on net, reduce wealth inequality rather than raising it. The rationale is that inheritances and particularly gifts typically flow from richer to poorer persons, thus lowering wealth inequality. Fifth, despite a rapid rise in income inequality, the inequality of wealth transfers shows no discernible time trend from 1989 to 2010, neither upward nor downward. Sixth, among the very wealthy, the share of wealth accounted for by wealth transfers is surprisingly low, only about a sixth, and this share has trended significantly downward over time. It is true that inheritances and gifts are unequal, with only one fifth of families receiving wealth transfers and these transfers benefitting the rich far more than the middle class and the poor. That, however, is not the whole picture of inheritances in America. Clearly-written and illuminating, this books expertly distills an abundance of data on inheritances into important takeaways for all who wonder about the current state of inheritances and gifts in the United States.

Author : Jens Beckert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691134512
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inherited Wealth written by Jens Beckert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. Bequeathing wealth is a vital ingredient of family solidarity. But does the reproduction of social inequality through inheritance square with the principle of equal opportunity? Does democracy suffer when family wealth becomes political power? The first in-depth, comparative study of the development of inheritance law in the United States, France, and Germany, Inherited Wealth investigates longstanding political and intellectual debates over inheritance laws and explains why these laws still differ so greatly among these countries. Using a sociological perspective, Jens Beckert sheds light on the four most controversial issues in inheritance law during the past two centuries: the freedom to dispose of one's property as one wishes, the rights of family members to the wealth bequeathed, the dissolution of entails (which restrict inheritance to specific classes of heirs), and estate taxation. Beckert shows that while the United States, France, and Germany have all long defended inheritance rights based on the notion of individual property rights, they have justified limitations on inheritance rights in profoundly different ways, reflecting culturally specific ways of understanding the problems of inherited wealth.

Author : Jacqueline L. Angel
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801887635
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inheritance in Contemporary America written by Jacqueline L. Angel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Daniel Halliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803354
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inheritance of Wealth written by Daniel Halliday and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequality, class hierarchy, and taxation, while also drawing on the history of the egalitarian, utilitarian, and liberal traditions in political philosophy. He presents an egalitarian case for restricting inherited wealth, arguing that unrestricted inheritance is unjust to the extent that it enables and enhances the intergenerational replication of inequality. Here, inequality is understood in a group-based sense: the unjust effects of inheritance are principally in its tendency to concentrate certain opportunities into certain groups. This results in what Halliday describes as 'economic segregation'. He defends a specific proposal about how to tax inherited wealth: roughly, inheritance should be taxed more heavily when it comes from old money. He rebuts some sceptical arguments against inheritance taxes, and makes suggestions about how tax schemes should be designed.

Author : Barbara Blouin
Publisher : Barbara Blouin
ISBN 13 : 0969919581
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Inherited Wealth written by Barbara Blouin and published by Barbara Blouin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Remi Clignet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351523449
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Deeds, and Descendents written by Remi Clignet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clignet's analysis of inheritance patterns in modern America is the first sustained treatment of the subject by a sociologist. Clignet shows that even today inheritance serves to perpetuate both familial wealth and familial relations. He examines what leads decedents to chose particular legal instruments (wills, trusts, insurance policies, gifts inter vivos) and how, in turn, the instrument chosen helps explain the extent and the form of inequalities in bequests, of a result of the gender or matrimonial status of the beneficiaries. The author's major is to identify and explain the most significant sources of variations in the amount and the direction of transfers of wealth after death in the United States. He uses two kinds of primary data: estate tax returns filed by a sample of male and female beneficiaries to estates in 1920 and 1944, representing two successive generations of estate transfers, and publicly recorded legal instruments such as wills and trusts. In addition, Clignet draws widely on secondary sources in the fields of anthropology, economics, and history. His findings reflect substantive and methodological concerns. The analysis underlines the need to rethink the sociology of generational bonds, as it is informed by age and gender. Death, Deeds, and Descendants underscores the variety of forms of inequality that bequests take and highlights the complexity of interrelations between the cultures of the decedents' nationalities and issues like occupation and gender. Inheritance is viewed as a way of illuminating the subtle tensions between continuity and change in American society. This book is an important contribution to the study of the relationship between sociology of the family and sociology of social stratification.

Author : Josiah Wedgwood
Publisher : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of Inheritance written by Josiah Wedgwood and published by Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1929, new introduction 1939."Originally presented as the author's thesis, London School of Economics. Bibliography: p. 276-278.

Author : Barbara Blouin
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : The Inheritage Project
ISBN 13 : 9780770325787
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Inherited Wealth : Interviews with Heirs written by Barbara Blouin and published by Halifax, N.S. : The Inheritage Project. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Chester
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book Inheritance, Wealth, and Society written by Ronald Chester and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: