Inequality and the 1%
Dorling, Daniel2015
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Inequality is more than just economics. It is the culture that divides and makes social mobility impossible. Leading geographer Danny Dorling goes in pursuit of the latest research into how the lives and ideas of the 1 percent impact the remaining 99 percent; and the findings are shocking. Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has suffered the penalties of austerity.But inequality is more than just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on a person's potential: reducing life expectancy, limiting education and work prospects, and even affecting mental health.What is to be done? In Inequality and the 1% leading social thinker Danny Dorling lays bare the extent and true cost of the division in our society and asks what have the superrich ever done for us. He shows that inquality is the greatest threat we face and why we must urgently redress the balance.
Main title:
Inequality and the 1% / Danny Dorling.
Author:
Dorling, Daniel, author
Work:
Edition:
[New edition].
Imprint:
London : Verso, 2015.
Collation:
248 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Notes:
Previous edition: 2014.Includes index.
ISBN:
9781784782078 (pbk)9781781685860 (ebook)
Dewey class:
305.50941305.5094 DOR
LC class:
HM821
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
335737