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Wealth has captivated people's attention for centuries. Yet despite society's fascination with the 1%, wealth accumulation has largely been neglected as a topic of social research, hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to remedy this shortcoming. In accessible prose, Yuval Elmelech explains how, both conceptually and empirically, wealth differs fundamentally from other conventional measures of socioeconomic status and why it ha...

Wealth has captivated people's attention for centuries. Yet despite society's fascination with the 1%, wealth accumulation has largely been neglected as a topic of social research, hidden beneath data on income inequality. Wealth aims to remedy this shortcoming. In accessible prose, Yuval Elmelech explains how, both conceptually and empirically, wealth differs fundamentally from other conventional measures of socioeconomic status and why it ha...

In this authoritative study, Elmelech investigates the role that generational heritage plays in social stratification. Transmitting Inequality provides the essential theoretical framework for examining the institutional inequalities that shape the distribution of property and wealth in the United States.