III Visiting Fellow Gaby Harris was interviewed for Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 📻️ She discussed her research on how girls negotiate forms of pocket money to facilitate consumption, illuminating how these practices involve class and moral valuations. Listen to the full episode ⬇️
BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Charity Shops and Pocket Money
What do giving and spending money reveal about everyday life?
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Really happy to see my new article on far-right politics, touristification and the ‘political economy of taste’ published in @bjsociology.bsky.social (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste
This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and dr...
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The Extreme Wealth Line project is a transdisciplinary initiative aiming at the introduction of an extreme wealth line (EWL), just like we have an extreme poverty line. The project has now published its two foundational papers, as LSE-III working papers #171 and #172: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
Working Papers
LSE Inequalities Institute Working Papers
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Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground? @steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social
Trigger Points
Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...
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Last month @mikesavagelse.bsky.social delivered a webinar for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, sharing insights from the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites and the World Elite Database. Catch up on the recording ⬇️
UN DESA DISD Webinar with Mike Savage on Analysing the power of global elites in the 2020s
This webinar was organized by the Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA). This webinar drew on findings from the…
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Join @mikesavagelse.bsky.social for a webinar with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which will draw on findings from the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites, including results from the World Elite Database. Register ➡️ buff.ly/l40Wqcd
If you are in East London next Tuesday do come along to hear Faiza and me next Tuesday evening…
💻️ Upcoming webinar hosted by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social will draw on results from the World Elite Database project which considers comparative features of elite formation across the globe. 🕒️ 10am - 11am EDT / 3pm - 4pm BST 🔗 buff.ly/jGmvW94
📣 Over 500 of the UK’s most economically influential individuals have been identified in a new analysis published by III researchers. It shows that many of those with the greatest economic power remain largely unseen by the wider public, thus avoiding public scrutiny. buff.ly/JW4FLQu
Who Runs Britain? | LSE analysis of the UK’s most powerful figures
A new LSE study examines 500+ influential figures across business, politics and finance, showing how many operate with minimal media visibility despite holding significant economic authority.
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#EuSocialForum I enjoyed the wealth inequality panel. Great synergy between the contributions by Salvatore Morelli and Aline Muller, and the sociological reflections by Mike Savage, and my philosophical input.
On autosociobiography and social mobility: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @samfriedman.bsky.social
Beyond the ‘Scholarship Boy’ paradigm: Autosociobiography and social mobility - Sam Friedman, Mike Savage, Carlos Spoerhase, 2025
This article reflects on the potential of the rapidly emerging literary genre of autosociobiography to extend analyses of the personal experience and feelings a...
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Great @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog by Will Snell on the missed opportunities of yesterday’s budget blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
UK Budget 2025: Fiscal deficit or democratic deficit?
Expert analysis on the 2025 UK Budget. Reeves avoided important tax reforms, with the wealthy still not paying their fair share (income tax, capital gains, etc)
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🔜 Next week! We are excited to be joined by Emma Chamberlain, @helenmiller.bsky.social, @maharafiatal.bsky.social, and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social to discuss why it is so important for the Chancellor to address current wealth trends in her upcoming budget. Register now ⬇️ buff.ly/fXy9xsz
@mikesavagelse.bsky.social on UK wealth inequality in @uk.theconversation.com, Yu Xie and Junming Huang on China and scholarship in @washingtonpost.com, and Ashley Railey on substance use in OSU News. Read more here from The Society Pages' Clippings of Sociology in the News: 🔗 bit.ly/3WOQHG1 🔗
In a new piece for @uk.theconversation.com, @mikesavagelse.bsky.social argues that we need to restore the vital principle that private wealth entails social responsibilities. 🎟️ Hear more in our online event on 18 November: buff.ly/fXy9xsz Read the article ⬇️ buff.ly/QG56QyD
The UK’s wealth ‘timebomb’ – and how to defuse it
The case for taxing wealth has historically come from the political mainstream – so why is it so unpalatable now?
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Just published! My call for a ‘cultural politics of wealth’, to tilt the political debate towards understanding the vital need to tax wealth, one way or another…. @lseinequalities.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-uks-weal...
The UK’s wealth ‘timebomb’ – and how to defuse it
The case for taxing wealth has historically come from the political mainstream – so why is it so unpalatable now?
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Faiza has been a fabulous academic colleague at LSE Sociology & LSE International Inequalities Institute over recent years. This is a serious error by the BBC.
Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?
On top of this, our own research shows that the racial wealth gap is particularly stark, in part driven by the fact people of colour are much less likely to accumulate wealth via homeownership and inheritance 🏡
Why the UK racial wealth divide matters: a call for action
A perspectives paper from LSE, which looks at how structural and historic wealth imbalances still impact the wealth of people of colour in the UK today.
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My latest on Trumpian craziness/neo-fascism
LSE Inequalities@lseinequalities.bsky.social · 11mo agoAt the heart of Trump's political agenda is an obsession with the influence of cultural institutions on American identity, writes @mlamont.bsky.social. Which groups should be valued in American society – and which should be maintained at the periphery and subordinated? 🔗 buff.ly/aEXTcOI
Great blog by Michele Lamont on how we need to defend progressive cultural interventions to resist the abhorrent divisive and exclusionary tactics of Trump & MAGA. Very relevant to the UK & other nations too. blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
Trump gets even – Who says culture doesn’t matter? - LSE Inequalities
Donald Trump's political agenda centres around cultural influence & a deeply symbolic struggle for recognition. Who is central vs peripheral in America today?
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Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse
Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse
Exclusive: Open letter says politicians are exploiting violence against women ‘to fuel hate and division’ Prominent women including cultural figures, politicians and campaigners have signed a letter criticising rightwing attempts to link sexual violence in Britain to asylum seekers. Signatories include the musicians Paloma Faith, Charlotte Church and Anoushka Shankar as well as Labour, Green and independent MPs including Kim Johnson, Ellie Chowns, Diane Abbott and Zarah Sultana. Continue reading...
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Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
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Rachel Reeves needs to find cash fast. A wealth tax really is her only viable option | Faiza Shaheen
The alternatives for the UK chancellor are either unworkable or will lose Labour votes, so here’s what she should try, says Faiza Shaheen of Tax Justice UK
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To engage people on the problem of wealth inequality, we should focus on the “unfair influence” wielded by those at the top, write @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, @wealtherty.bsky.social & Annalena Oppel, even if that causes outrage. @jrf-uk.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/GAf0Es5
It’s time to face up to power in the debate about wealth inequality
When discussing wealth inequality, the “unfair influence” framing fares best at driving support for redistributive measures. But does it come with hidden costs?
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Is there something distinct about wealth as an economic resource that should change how we think about poverty? In the new episode of Antisocial Economics, @wealtherty.bsky.social talks to @mikesavagelse.bsky.social and @jowolff.bsky.social about what we mean by poverty and wealth.
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What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…
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It is as bad as we have ever seen it. The scenes of famine in Gaza are simply barbaric. As MPs of Israeli and Palestinian descent, we hope though that recognition of the State of Palestine will serve to flame the embers of hope for peace. My open letter with @alexsobel.co.uk
1/10 🚨Why do women accumulate less wealth than men across countries and time? I had the privilege of co-directing the latest Special Issue of #SER @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @celinebessiere.bsky.social on gender and wealth accumulation. 🧵 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
Gender and wealth accumulation: an international perspective
Abstract. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men globally? As wealth inequality rises both within countries and worldwide, studies on gender and weal
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🌟 @samfriedman.bsky.social and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social were awarded the Outstanding Team Impact prize for their project "Abolishing the Non-Dom Tax Regime". This award recognises excellence achieved as a team, spanning researchers, professional services, and external organisations.
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Twelve days in Gaza: what happened while the world looked away?
One of the consequences of Israel’s 12-day conflict with Iran was a drop-off in attention paid to the war in Gaza, where a terrible humanitarian situation deteriorated even further. This is a timeline...
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