Katharina Hecht (LSE) The top 1 percent of income earners in the UK accounted for as much as [...]
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Are Managers the New Barbarians Destroying Local and National Societies?
Alberta Andreotti (University of Milan-Bicocca), Patrick Le Galès, (CNRS-Sciences-Po Paris) and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes (IPP-CSIC) Amused by his [...]
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In the Shadows: How Unaccountable Elites Corrupt Democracy
Janine R. Wedel (George Mason University) Over the past decade-plus, I have been charting the emergence of a [...]
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(Re)producing the ‘working rich’ in London’s financial district
Image: FreeFoto.com Sarah Hall (University of Nottingham) Some of the most enduring images of the 2007-8 financial crisis were [...]
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A city in thrall to capital? London, money-power and elites
Photo: Hang Kei-Ho Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield) and Roger Burrows (Goldsmiths, University of London) The usual preamble doesn’t [...]
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Money costs more when you’re poor
Nigel Dodd (LSE) We are used to thinking of the relationship between money and inequality in rather obvious [...]
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Outsourcing services, co-dependence and elite power
Julie Froud (Manchester Business School), Sukhdev Johal (Queen Mary University of London) and Michael Moran (Manchester Business [...]
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Gender Inequality among Political Elites
Jenny Hansson (Birkbeck College, University of London) Women in today’s western society are still less successful than men [...]
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Rethinking elites
Shamus Rahman Khan (Columbia University) In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, chants of ‘We. Are. [...]
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Speaking Back To Stigma: social housing and solidarity in East London
Photo: Liam Barrington-Bush Tracey Jensen (University of East London) You do not have to travel very far in the [...]
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