Wealth

"Elmelech provides an engaging and comprehensive examination of one of today's most pressing social problems. A must-read for anyone interested in wealth ownership and inequality and the policies that attempt to address asset poverty." Lisa A. Keister, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University "Elmelech moves considerations of wealth from a purely economic context to encompass sociological insights about institutional, demographic, and intergenerational factors that influence household accumulations and inequality. Theoretically profound and empirically comprehensive. A fitting companion to Piketty's seminal volume, Capital." Seymour Spilerman, Co-Director, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, Columbia University