Professor Ben Ansell writes on the return of Wealth Inequality as a political issue

Ben Ansell has written an article for the centre-left think tank Policy Network (12 September) about the return to the political agenda of the issue of wealth inequality.

He writes, "Though many recent debates have focused on income inequality, wealth inequality has been overshadowed despite the housing boom and bust’s central role in the financial crisis. However, the British welfare state’s challenges are part and parcel of the growing importance of the housing market

It only takes a glancing familiarity with recent debates about economics and politics to notice that the issue of inequality is firmly back on the agenda. Thomas Piketty’s grand tome Capital in the Twenty-first Century is the best-known academic example but popular movements castigating growing inequality, including the Occupy movement, and those defending it, such as the Tea Party, have been galvanised ever since the global credit crisis beginning in 2008."

You can read the full article by clicking here: http://www.policy-network.net/pno_detail.aspx?ID=4732&title=The-political-return-of-wealth