Book Launch: Uncomfortably off: Why the top 10% of earners should care about inequality
Hosted by the Department of Social Policy and the International Inequalities Institute
Wednesday 31 May 2023, 6.30pm-8.00pm, in-person and online public event. The Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers:
Dr Marcos González Hernando, Honorary Research Fellow at UCL Social Research Institute and affiliated researcher at Universidad Diego Portales and the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Social Cohesion in Chile.
Dr Gerry Mitchell, social researcher, campaigner and community activist.
Respondent:
Anook Chakelian, Britain Editor of the New Statesman.
Chair:
Dr Tania Burchardt, Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), Deputy Director of STICERD, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the LSE.
Media attention is often focused on the very richest, the 1%, and their capacity to influence politics and shape society. But they are not the only ones who drive politics, the public conversation and much of the private sector. The focus of this book is on the larger top 10%, the managers and professionals of our media, business, the third sector, political parties and academia and who are just as influential.
More information here