Understanding Society: Poverty, Wealth and Inequality in the UK Morelli Carlo J.
This poignant book examines poverty, wealth and inequality in the UK, and provides insight into its history, its present-day forms and possible routes to its eradication.Understanding Society:…
Specifikacia Understanding Society: Poverty, Wealth and Inequality in the UK Morelli Carlo J.
This poignant book examines poverty, wealth and inequality in the UK, and provides insight into its history, its present-day forms and possible routes to its eradication.Understanding Society: Poverty, Wealth and Inequality in the UK responds to the issue of wealth inequality within society, noting that it is not an innate part of the human experience, but a phenomenon which is constructed by economic and social circumstances. Using Thomas Malthus' interrogation of the 'natural right of the poor to full support in [...] society' as a starting point, and moving on to more contemporary economic approaches, the authors examine the various forms of wealth inequality in the UK, using the Understanding Society Dataset to ground their findings in quantitative evidence. The book concludes with an assessment of what is required to potentially end poverty in the UK, and a call