Monopoly restored: how the super-rich robbed main street

'Monopoly Restored' is a work of contemporary economic history focusing primarily on the US and the UK.

It shows that, historically, much of the wealth of the ultra-wealthy has been based on inheritance, tax evasion, political influence, or wage theft.

Today, much of the wealth of the rentier class - the super-rich - is based on income from ownership or control of scarce assets, or assets artificially made scarce.

As a result, the super-rich reap much of their wealth from patents, monopolies, and subsidies.

This book states in qualitative and quantitative terms how expensive the super-rich have become, why they are unsustainable for the rest of us, and what the way forward to greater economic equality may be.

In sum, the super-rich are unaffordable.