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Social mobility

Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson on How Social Status Affects our Self-Worth

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Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett follow up their seminal work The Spirit Level with new insights into how inequality impacts us as individuals.
Lynsey Hanley on The Experience of Class

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Journalist and writer Lynsey Hanley explores why class is still so central to the experience of living in Britain today.
Helen Pearson on The Life Project

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Science journalist Helen Pearson reveals insights from the five birth cohort studies begun in 1940s Britain, that form the basis of how we understand inequality and health today.
Robert Putnam on Inequality and Opportunity

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Robert Putnam explores the cultural and economic factors that are contributing to the persistence of inequality, and asks: what can be done to address the widening ‘opportunity gap’.
David Graeber on a Fair Future Economy

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David Graeber, anthropologist and leading figure in the Occupy movement, visits the RSA to consider what it would take to build a flourishing, sustainable and just future economy.
Danny Dorling on Inequality and the 1%

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Leading social geographer Danny Dorling unpacks the latest research into how the lives and ideas of the 1 percent impact the remaining 99%.
The Truth About Social Mobility

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Gregory Clark is professor of economics, University of California, Davis
Influencing Tomorrow

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Douglas Alexander MP is UK Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Does the British Establishment still exist?

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Peter Hennessy is one of the UK’s leading contemporary historians.
Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality

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Angus Deaton is Dwight D. Eisenhower professor of Economics and International Affairs