Unjust Rewards: exposing the greed and inequality in Britain today

4th Sep 2008; 18:00

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Join Polly Toynbee,Guardian columnist and broadcaster; David Walker, editor of Public; Will Hutton, chief executive, The Work Foundation; Avner Offer Professor of economic history, University of Oxford; Jon Moulton,  Founder and Managing Partner, Alchemy Partners and David Willetts MP to discuss the real implications of Britain’s widening pay gap.

Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA

In a new book, Unjust Rewards: Exposing the Greed and Inequality in Britain Today, Polly Toynbee and co-author David Walker investigate inequality in modern Britain, speaking to people at every level of pay, from top City bankers and lawyers to single-parent families.
 

Weaving the argument for fairer tax with a defence of what tax money buys, Toynbee and Walker argue not for more tax in total, but for tax that is distributed more equitably.

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