The recently published ‘Paradise Papers’ have refocussed attention on just how much wealth the richest in UK society own, and how even in a democratic society the rules you play by depend on who you...
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We are a wealthy but deeply unequal nation. The richest 10% of households own nearly 900 times the wealth of the poorest 10%, and five times more than the least wealthy half of the population, who...
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Labour and the Conservatives are currently searching for an answer to different questions: how to transform the economy on the one hand, and restore support among the under-45s on the other. ...
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The UK is a wealthy nation; but that wealth is very unevenly divided. This report shows how these inequalities exist between individuals and families, between areas of the country, generations and...
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Last week, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, wrote an exclusive for the Financial Times arguing that the UK economic model was ‘broken’.
The Archbishop’s analysis was built on the...
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Think tankers, for example at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the Resolution Foundation and IPPR, often like to use ‘distributional analysis’ to assess the impacts of policy on households, and...
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This two-part blog includes:
an introduction to our work on the topic
a transcript of Lisa Nandy MP’s speech.
Introduction
Harry Quilter-Pinner,...
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This briefing explores recently published figures on income, taxes and benefits, the important differences between households across the country, and how they reflect a spatial imbalance in economic...
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This report asks how can government act effectively and innovatively to ensure markets for essentials like energy, transport and housing function fairly. Living standards of households in the UK...
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It has a striking central thesis, namely that historically the rate of return on assets has been consistently higher than the rate of the growth, thus generating and reproducing substantial inequalit...
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