{"id":34855,"date":"2019-09-11T03:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T03:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34855"},"modified":"2019-09-11T03:16:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T03:16:04","slug":"inequality-is-it-rising-and-can-we-reverse-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34855","title":{"rendered":"Inequality: is it rising, and can we reverse it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK ranks among the most unequal commonwealths in Europe and many people feel they are not sharing in the country&rsquo;s wealth<\/p>\n<p>Income inequality has risen aggressively since the 1970 s in most advanced economies various regions of the world, and has been blamed for increasingly polarised politics.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Piketty: Capital in the 21 st Century<\/p>\n<p>Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Civilization Stronger<\/p>\n<p>Tony Atkinson: Inequality: What Can Be Done? <\/p>\n<p>Branko Milanovic: Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization<\/p>\n<p>Sir Angus Deaton: The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Descent of Inequality<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2019\/sep\/09\/inequality-is-it-rising-and-can-we-reverse-it\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2019\/sep\/09\/inequality-is-it-rising-and-can-we-reverse-it\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK ranks among the most unequal commonwealths in Europe and many people feel they are not sharing in the country&rsquo;s wealth Income inequality has risen aggressively since the 1970 s in most advanced economies various regions of the world, and has been blamed for increasingly polarised politics. Thomas Piketty: Capital in the 21 st &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1021,2740,11061,15608,15607],"class_list":["post-34855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-economics","tag-inequality","tag-society","tag-uk-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/33071568171765.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}