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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780691187402
035 _a(DE-B1597)501803
035 _a(OCoLC)1076418080
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072 7 _aSOC006000
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082 0 4 _a346.05/2
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBeckert, Jens
_eautore
245 1 0 _aInherited Wealth /
_cJens Beckert.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
_t1. Introduction --
_t2. The Right to Bequeath: Testamentary Freedom and the Individuality of Property --
_t3. Equality and Inclusion: The Inheritance Rights of the Family --
_t4. Political Structure and Inheritance Law: The Abolition of Entails --
_t5. Social Justice through Redistribution? The Taxation of Inheritance --
_t6. Conclusion: Discourses and Institutions --
_tAPPENDIX: THE METHOD OF CONTENT ANALYSIS OF PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES --
_tNOTES --
_tREFERENCES --
_tINDEX
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHow to regulate the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next has been hotly debated among politicians, legal scholars, sociologists, economists, and philosophers for centuries. Bequeathing wealth is a vital ingredient of family solidarity. But does the reproduction of social inequality through inheritance square with the principle of equal opportunity? Does democracy suffer when family wealth becomes political power? The first in-depth, comparative study of the development of inheritance law in the United States, France, and Germany, Inherited Wealth investigates longstanding political and intellectual debates over inheritance laws and explains why these laws still differ so greatly among these countries. Using a sociological perspective, Jens Beckert sheds light on the four most controversial issues in inheritance law during the past two centuries: the freedom to dispose of one's property as one wishes, the rights of family members to the wealth bequeathed, the dissolution of entails (which restrict inheritance to specific classes of heirs), and estate taxation. Beckert shows that while the United States, France, and Germany have all long defended inheritance rights based on the notion of individual property rights, they have justified limitations on inheritance rights in profoundly different ways, reflecting culturally specific ways of understanding the problems of inherited wealth.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aInheritance and succession
_zFrance.
650 0 _aInheritance and succession
_zGermany.
650 0 _aInheritance and succession
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography.
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700 1 _aDunlap, Thomas
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187402?locatt=mode:legacy
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