Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich

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

'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.'

• Contents:1. ‘They’ve Never Had it so Good’: The Rise and Rise of the Super-Rich and Wealth InequalityJonathan V. Beaverstock and Iain Hay2. Reconsidering the Super-Rich: Variations, Structural Conditions, and Urban ConsequencesSin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink and Ray ForrestPART I WEALTH, SELF AND SOCIETY3. Historical Geographies of Wealth: Opportunities, Institutions and Accumulation, C.1800–1930Alastair Owens and David R. Green4. On Plutonomy: Economy, Power and the Wealthy Few in the Second Gilded Age Iain Hay5. Interrogating the Legitimacy of Extreme Wealth: A Moral Economic PerspectiveAndrew Sayer6. Billionaire Philanthropy: ‘Decaf Capitalism’Ilan Kapoor7. Making Money and Making a Self: The Moral Career of Entrepreneurs Paul G. Schervish8. Taking Up Caletrío’s Challenge: Silence and the Construction of Wealth Eliteness in Jamie Johnson’s Documentary Film Born Rich Sam Schulz and Iain Hay9. “One Time I’ma Show You How To Get Rich!” Rap Music, Wealth and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Mogul Allan Watson10. Biographies of Illicit Super-Wealth Tim HallPART II LIVING WEALTHY11. Capital City? London’s Housing Markets and the ‘Super-Rich’Rowland Atkinson, Roger Burrows and David Rhodes12. The Residential Spaces of the Super-RichChris Paris13. Reconfiguring Places – Wealth and the Transformation of Rural AreasMichael Woods14. Performing Wealth and Status: Observing Super-yachts and the Super-rich in MonacoEmma Spence15. Flights of Indulgence (Or How the Very Wealthy Fly): The Aeromobile Patterns and Practices of the Super-RichLucy Budd16. Looking at Luxury: Consuming Luxury Fashion in Global CitiesLouise Crewe and Amber Martin17. The Luxury of Nature: The Environmental Consequences of Super-Rich Lives Aidan DavisonPART III WEALTH AND POWER18. Attracting Wealth: Crafting Immigration Policy to Attract the RichJohn Rennie Short19. Sovereign Wealth and the Nation-StateAdam D. Dixon20. Super-Rich Capitalism: Managing and Preserving Private Wealth Management in the Offshore WorldJonathan V. Beaverstock and Sarah Hall21. Troubling Tax Havens: Multi-Jurisdictional Arbitrage and Corporate Tax Footprint Reduction Ronen Palan and Giovanni Mangraviti22. No Change There! Wealth and OilIsaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka and Anna ZalikIndex