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Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion&rsquo;s share of wealth growth going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach. What exactly are the economic shifts that have driven the social transformations taking place in Anglo-capitalist societies?   <br /><br />In this timely book, Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings argue that the rise of the asset economy has produced a new logic of inequality. Several decades of property inflation have seen asset ownership overshadow employment as a determinant of class position. Exploring the impact of generational dynamics in this new class landscape, the book advances an original perspective on a range of phenomena that are widely debated but poorly understood - including the growth of wealth inequalities and precarity, the dynamics of urban property inflation, changes in fiscal and monetary policy and the predicament of the &ldquo;millennial&rdquo; generation. Despite widespread awareness of the harmful effects of Quantitative Easing and similar asset-supporting measures, we appear to have entered an era of policy &ldquo;lock-in&rdquo; that is responsible for

Author

Lisa Adkins; Melinda Cooper; Martijn Konings

Publisher

Cambridge, UK: Polity Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781509543465

Subjects

Finance, Political Science, Sociology