Monthly Archives: October 2011

Is Income Inequality Exaggerated?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

The premise of Occupy Wall Street is simple: American society is becoming more unequal as a privileged minority takes control of an increasingly larger share of wealth and power. As I mentioned in my post last week, not all scholars … Continue reading →

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Inheritance and inequality in the UK: counterintuitive findings

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

Last Friday my old centre at LSE, CASE, launched a new multi-funder programme looking at the effects of the cuts in the UK 2007-2014 – snappily titled ‘Social Policy in a Cold Climate‘. I think of this as one of … Continue reading →

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The Top 1% in the News

Posted on October 20, 2011 by

Occupy Wall Street has moderately heightened interest in the rising gap between the top one percent of income earners and the bottom ninety-nine percent. (It’s important to not get carried away on this point… compare this and this chart from … Continue reading →

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Welfare conditionality and disabled people: a democratic deficit

Posted on October 18, 2011 by

In a guest post, Jenny Morris explains piece-by-piece why the dominant all-party UK story on incapacity is wrong.  The piece was originally posted on her blog, jennymorrisnet.blogspot.com. This is the start of a renewed focus on disability issues on the … Continue reading →

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How the Other Half Eats

Posted on October 13, 2011 by

Folks, today you can find my blog post “How the Other Half Eats” on one of my favorite food blogs theeatenpath.com. I make the argument that Occupy Wall Street is opening the door to a national conversation about inequalities in … Continue reading →

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Why erotic capital still matters

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

[This is the second half of a piece Saving Erotic Capital From Itself that I began last week] “Good looks don’t matter” “Nonsense, that’s just something ugly people tell their children” So says The Simpsons, as ever capturing the way of … Continue reading →

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Getting on the Bus with Material Hardship

Posted on October 6, 2011 by

This is the third post in a series of three on the measurement of poverty in the U.S. Hunger takes this bus, too. 1 in 6 Americans struggle with hunger. This attention-grabbing sign began appearing on buses around Boston and … Continue reading →

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Saving ‘erotic capital’ from itself

Posted on October 5, 2011 by

It’s not hard to guess why it got so many column inches.  The sociological concept of ‘erotic capital’?  A book by an academic that calls itself ‘Honey Money’, a title adapted from a saying of Jakarta prostitutes?  An evidence-based claim … Continue reading →

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