{"id":16615,"date":"2012-07-31T08:25:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T07:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=16615"},"modified":"2012-07-30T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T15:28:13","slug":"tax-justice-focus-the-inequality-edition-guest-edited-by-richard-wilkinson-and-kate-pickett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/07\/31\/tax-justice-focus-the-inequality-edition-guest-edited-by-richard-wilkinson-and-kate-pickett\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Justice Focus – The Inequality Edition. Guest edited by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"The disposition to admire, and almost to worship,\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least,<\/em><\/div>\n
\u00a0to neglect persons of poor and mean condition\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
is the great and most universal cause of\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
the corruption of our moral sentiments.\"\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
Adam Smith (1723-1790)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Inequality is divisive and socially corrosive.\u00a0 For centuries, many people recognised that truth intuitively, but now the data show it is truer than we ever imagined. The bigger the income gaps between rich and poor, the less cohesive the society: community life weakens, people trust each other less and violence increases.<\/div>\n
The latest edition of\u00a0Tax Justice Focus\u00a0<\/em>is devoted to inequality<\/a>.\u00a0 Our guest editors are Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, whose book,\u00a0The Spirit Level<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, has been acclaimed worldwide for its comprehensive analysis of how inequality is not just about differences in material comforts, but also has powerful psychosocial effect that reduce the wellbeing of whole populations.<\/div>\n
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In the lead article, Nick Shaxson, John Christensen and Nick Mathiason explain why studies of economic inequality have systematically underestimated the wealth and income enjoyed by the world\u2019s wealthiest people.<\/div>\n
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In the following articles, Danny Dorling examines how tax changes in recent decades have contributed to rising inequality in the United Kingdom; David Erdal explores how wealth distribution has nothing to do with markets: it is a result of the use of power; and Thomas Pikkety, Emmanuel Saex and Stefanie Stantcheva find that chief executive officers are consistently rewarded for good outcomes which are directly due to a good industry-wide climate, and hence are not achieved by hard work.<\/div>\n
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The Inequality edition is available for download\u00a0here<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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