Showing posts with label inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inequality. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 March 2019

Today's eternal truth - free markets reduce inequality

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This can't be said too often - but too many folk from left, right and centre seem incapable of grasping the cause of inequality: But e...
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Saturday, 12 May 2018

Effective measures to address social mobility and inequality are politically unpopular

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A great deal is spoken about equality and, as a result, we have two concepts that are seen as core to the resolution of inequalities: socia...
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Thursday, 26 January 2017

Why we need faith in The Market

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Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We h...
Friday, 8 April 2016

Housing and inequality

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**** It's a truism to say that housing costs are one cause of inequality in developed societies and that some places - London, San Franc...
Thursday, 6 August 2015

Quote of the day - on planning and inequality

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**** From Maximizing Opportunity Urbanism with Robin Hood Planning by Tory Gattis for the Center for Opportunity Urbanism : All in al...
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Monday, 22 September 2014

If you want to control something you need its right name - a problem with poverty and inequality

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"Now you know the Rules of Names already, children. There are two, and they're the same on every island in the world. What'...
Sunday, 7 September 2014

Social immobility...

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**** Fascinating this : Seven to ten generations are required before the descendants of high and low status families achieve average s...
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Friday, 22 August 2014

It's poverty not inequality that should concern us...

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**** Although Fraser Nelson falls foul of some factual errors (when will people stop using mortality statistics to say things like "...
Wednesday, 18 June 2014

How talk of inequality skews our debate about poverty.

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**** Through the medium of Twitter, I was directed to this article about 'poverty' - or rather it was about income inequality: ...
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Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Merit, opportunity and the reduction of poverty in Bradford

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**** Yesterday I was at a 'development session' for Bradford's Health and Well-being Board and getting a bit irritated by the ...
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Monday, 12 May 2014

Is this why equality is important?

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**** I've just re-read Gordon Dickson's 'Necromancer' , a novella providing some context for the author's Childe Cycle...
Monday, 21 April 2014

Note on the causes of health inequality...

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**** This is from the ONS statistical bulletin entitled "Life Expectancy at Birth and at Age 65 by Local Areas in the United Kingdom...
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Wednesday, 16 April 2014

So much for equality, eh!

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**** Paul Krugman, lefties favourite Nobel laureate economist, has a new source of income - researching inequality. And a nice little ear...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Quote of the day: on the distribution of wealth...

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**** From Tim : If you've no debt and a £10 note then you, yes just you on your lonesome, has more wealth that the bottom 20% of B...
Wednesday, 8 May 2013

In which the North/South divide proves (again) that "The Spirit Level" is bunkum

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**** The Work Foundation (pdf), in one of those studies that seem much cleverer than they actually are, has pronounced that, the fur...
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