Everything Podcasts: Inequality. The Issue of Our Time: The Historical Perspective

In this virtual symposium led by Dr. Johnna Montgomerie, Professor of International Political Economy, at Kings College London, we’ve called on experts from the politics of inequality working group at King's College, London, and sought out our colleagues at other universities to share their ideas, research, and proposals to help explain what it means to call inequality issue of our time. We wanted to examine who was unequal, what causes inequality and why it's an urgent area of study.This episode introduces a virtual symposium of academics, students and practitioners who believe inequality is the issue of our time.  We draw expert opinions of those from King’s College London, the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney.  Inequality is a compelling problem that shows us the urgent need to find a solution through these dialogues. This episode looks at the importance of contextualizing inequality. And we do this through discussion of Thomas Picketty’s book “Capital in the 21st Century,” and Mike Savage’s cutting-edge book, “The Return of Inequality.”  Inequality takes many forms.  We combine understandings of the weight of history with the economic frames of income and wealth inequality and do this to recognize the conditions that create and reproduce inequality between groups in society.