LSE III Event | Why wealth inequality matters

Monday 13th May.
Co-hosted by the International Inequalities Institute and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
This closed roundtable event presents new and cutting-edge research from the LSE International Inequalities Institute demonstrating the systemic problems that wealth inequality is generating in the UK. The aim to equip policymakers, journalists and civil society groups with key insights that can be used for campaigning work and in spreading awareness so that the issues can inform campaigning in the run up to the General Election.
Researchers at the III have a powerful impact on policy developments, marked for instance in the recent abolition of the ‘non-dom' tax clause which drew on underpinning research by Dr Advani and Dr Summers. We want our new research to also inform emerging policy agendas.
Five panels will introduce new findings on (i) the extent and nature of wealth inequality in the UK, focusing especially on the rich; (ii) how wealth inequalities is shaping the social mobility prospects of Britons; (iii) the entrenched nature of gendered wealth divides; (iv) the scale and significance of the racial wealth divide and (v) how political perceptions amongst the disadvantaged are being shaped by fundamental wealth divides.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction - Mike Savage
00:10:54 Is it possible to tax the super-rich? - Andy Summers
00:43:31 Social mobility and the class-origin wealth gaps - Sam Friedman and Mina Mahmoudzadeh
01:15:47 Mind the gender wealth gap? - Elizabeth Mann
01:41:49 Coming to terms with the racial wealth divide - Eleni Karagiannaki
02:12:13 How wealth divides shape politics in working-class towns - Sacha Hilhorst
02:44:01 Facilitated discussion - Branko Milanović, Armine Ishkanian, Will Snell