Table of Contents

Contents:

1. ‘They’ve Never Had it so Good’: The Rise and Rise of the Super-Rich and Wealth Inequality
Jonathan V. Beaverstock and Iain Hay

2. Reconsidering the Super-Rich: Variations, Structural Conditions, and Urban Consequences
Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink and Ray Forrest

PART I WEALTH, SELF AND SOCIETY
3. Historical Geographies of Wealth: Opportunities, Institutions and Accumulation, C.1800–1930
Alastair Owens and David R. Green

4. On Plutonomy: Economy, Power and the Wealthy Few in the Second Gilded Age
Iain Hay

5. Interrogating the Legitimacy of Extreme Wealth: A Moral Economic Perspective
Andrew Sayer

6. Billionaire Philanthropy: ‘Decaf Capitalism’
Ilan Kapoor

7. Making Money and Making a Self: The Moral Career of Entrepreneurs
Paul G. Schervish

8. Taking Up Caletrío’s Challenge: Silence and the Construction of Wealth Eliteness in Jamie Johnson’s Documentary Film Born Rich
Sam Schulz and Iain Hay

9. “One Time I’ma Show You How To Get Rich!” Rap Music, Wealth and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Mogul
Allan Watson

10. Biographies of Illicit Super-Wealth
Tim Hall

PART II LIVING WEALTHY
11. Capital City? London’s Housing Markets and the ‘Super-Rich’
Rowland Atkinson, Roger Burrows and David Rhodes

12. The Residential Spaces of the Super-Rich
Chris Paris

13. Reconfiguring Places – Wealth and the Transformation of Rural Areas
Michael Woods

14. Performing Wealth and Status: Observing Super-yachts and the Super-rich in Monaco
Emma Spence

15. Flights of Indulgence (Or How the Very Wealthy Fly): The Aeromobile Patterns and Practices of the Super-Rich
Lucy Budd

16. Looking at Luxury: Consuming Luxury Fashion in Global Cities
Louise Crewe and Amber Martin

17. The Luxury of Nature: The Environmental Consequences of Super-Rich Lives
Aidan Davison

PART III WEALTH AND POWER
18. Attracting Wealth: Crafting Immigration Policy to Attract the Rich
John Rennie Short

19. Sovereign Wealth and the Nation-State
Adam D. Dixon

20. Super-Rich Capitalism: Managing and Preserving Private Wealth Management in the Offshore World
Jonathan V. Beaverstock and Sarah Hall

21. Troubling Tax Havens: Multi-Jurisdictional Arbitrage and Corporate Tax Footprint Reduction
Ronen Palan and Giovanni Mangraviti

22. No Change There! Wealth and Oil
Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka and Anna Zalik

Index

About the Author

Edited by Iain Hay, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Australia and Jonathan V. Beaverstock, University of Bristol, UK

Reviews

'All you ever wanted to know about the super-rich but were too embarrassed to ask - because we are not really supposed to talk that much about money, especially not about people with huge amounts of money, people who are so very far above us. Thankfully nearly three dozen scholars have decided to break the usual taboos and reveal all about our wealthiest of fellow human beings. Just what have they done for us, how did they get so rich, what is their individual carbon footprint and so much more. The new gilded age is coming to an end. It begins to end as we study those who live in the most gilded of cages, no longer in admiration but with great inquisitiveness, and accuracy.' --Danny Dorling, University of Oxford, UKVery highly recommended for both community and academic library reference collections, Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich will also prove to be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations, governmental policy makers, NGO activists, and the non-specialist general reader concerned with wealth and income distributions.' --The Midwest Book Review