I have a new, open access article published in Finance & Society, on the legitimation crisis of contemporary wealth-based capitalism and the existential unease that results.
Tag: inequality
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‘Stay home: mapping the new domestic regime’
I have a new open access paper in Economy & Society, co-authored with Sahil Dutta and Nick Taylor, on the rising centrality of ‘home’ to current political, economic and governmental problems.
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‘The petit bourgeois insurrection’
Review essay on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, published in The New Statesman
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‘Thomas Piketty’s failed revolution’
An essay for Unherd, reflecting on the significance and impact of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one decade on from its publication.
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‘In Britain today, it seems your suffering only counts if you have a mortgage’
Comment piece in The Guardian on the hypocritical responses to Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget”
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‘The era of low interest rates is ending – its legacy is inequality and toxic politics’
Comment piece for The Guardian, on the end of the era of ultra-cheap money, and who ultimately benefited from it.
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‘Stagnation Nation’
Article in the London Review of Books on the decline of the UK economy as the backdrop to the current Tory leadership election.
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Punishing the young serves Johnson’s politics of nostalgia
Guardian comment piece on derisory ‘catch-up’ funding and failure to recognise the sacrifices made by children.
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‘Johnson’s Tories are reaping the rewards of an economy built on house prices’
Comment piece for The Guardian, on the political and cultural consequences of Britain’s post-2008 model of capitalism, in which all the gains go to asset-owners.
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Succession Economics – new working paper
My new working paper on the politics and economics of inheritance, both in a public and a private sense, is now published online (and open access) by Centre for Understanding Prosperity.
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The case for more progressive taxes
Piece written for Discover Society, on why the current mood of solidarity and empathy for the vulnerable should be converted into a new era of progressive fiscal policy.
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‘Bloody Furious’
Review essay in the London Review of Books covering intergenerational politics in Britain over the past four years and Keir Milburn’s Generation Left.
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