Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality

Let’s Talk Wealtherty

Sarah Kerr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7056-7 (ISBN)

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In this book, Sarah Kerr explains that we live in a state of 'wealtherty', characterised by the hyper-concentration of wealth and a stark distinction between the rich and the poor. In pursuit of social and economic justice, she argues that we need to stop talking about poverty and start addressing the social and political problems caused by wealth.

The rich and the poor in the UK are subject to radically different legislative approaches. While the behaviours of the poor are relentlessly scrutinised, those of the rich are ignored or enabled.

In this book, Sarah Kerr suggests that we live in a state of ‘wealtherty’, characterised by the hyper-concentration of wealth and a stark distinction between the rich and the rest. Drawing on evidence from the 1500s onwards, she reveals a long history of government scrutiny of the poor and ignorance of the rich. She contests contemporary policy and practice which disregards the enduring role of the rich in the production of poverty and poverty in the production of the rich.

In pursuit of social and economic justice, this radical book challenges policy makers and researchers to stop talking about poverty and to start addressing the problems caused by wealtherty.

Sarah Kerr is a Research Fellow at LSE International Inequalities Institute. Her research interests are in the broad area of justice-making.

Part 1: What have we become?

1. Why wealtherty and why now?

2. The state of wealth and the state and wealth

Part 2: how have we become what we are?

3. Knowing: how the state came to know richer and poorer people differently

4. Governing: how the state came to govern richer and poorer people differently

5. Being: how ways of governing enabled different forms of self for richer and poorer people

Part 3: What sustains the problem?

6. Producing knowledge: think tanks and policy networks

7. Shaping behaviours: Space and the visual as tools of government

8. Shaping selves: wealth and identity

Part 4: In conclusion

9. Ways out

Erscheinungsdatum	24.09.2024
Zusatzinfo	10 Tables, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-7056-2 / 1447370562
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-7056-7 / 9781447370567
Zustand	Neuware