Debt and Wealth Inequality
Why do financial inequalities prove so hard to shift? Laurie Taylor looks at Ryan Davey's study on a southern English housing estate and Sarah Kerr's work on wealth.
What does an 18-month study of residents on a housing estate in southern England tell us about living with debt? Laurie Taylor talks to Ryan Davey from Cardiff University about his new book The Personal Life of Debt - Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain, which tries to understand how debt affects people emotionally as well as economically.
Laurie is also joined by Sarah Kerr (LSE International Inequalities Institute), whose book, Wealth, Poverty and Enduring Inequality - Let鈥檚 Talk Wealtherty, investigates the stubborn persistence of inequality in the UK. Kerr argues that the gap between top and bottom earners has become entrenched and normalised across generations.
Producer: Natalia Fernandez
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鈥淲ealth,聽Poverty and Enduring Inequality - Let's Talk Wealtherty鈥� by Sarah Kerr聽 (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Series 1 of Dr Sarah Kerr鈥檚 podcast Antisocial Economics, ( with the LSE)
-听 鈥� Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University
鈥淭he Personal Life of Debt: Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain鈥� by Ryan Davey聽 聽(Bristol University Press, 2025)
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