Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Very Wealthy in Modern Britain - Hardcover

by W. D. Rubinstein (Author)

Beyond the Dreams of Avarice offers analysis of who were the very rich, and how did this change over the past 250 years? How did the rich respond to the poor during the nineteenth century? How did the rich class contract, due to high taxation, between about 1920 and 1965? Why are levels of wealth reaching unprecedented figures today?