Pros and cons of inequality

From economics help - http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/3586/economics/pros-and-cons-of-inequality/

BBC - who gets the top jobs?

Richard Bilton examines the social barriers that have contributed to the UK being more unequal than at any other time in history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bD7U8kqI8A


Super rich - the greed game - BBC documentary - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suZb9Z0b05I

Unit 4 Macro: Video Shorts on Economic Growth and Inequality

China - superb short piece from John Simpson - The Chinese left behind by economic growth

Philippines: Worsening inequality in Manila

The rise of the super-rich - BBC news info graphic video

Save the Children – poverty in the UK - Save The Children urges action for poorest UK children

Inequality between west and east Germany - Economic gap between East and west Germany narrows

Inequality grows as the super-rich become richer

In a new book, journalist Chrystia Freeland shines a light on the global elite – a tiny group of super-wealthy globetrotters whose fortunes are only increasing. How destructive is inequality?

http://www.theday.co.uk/economics/inequality-grows-as-the-super-rich-become-richer

Stiglitz's views on inequality

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (2012)

From the jacket: As those at the top continue to enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they often fail to realize that, as Joseph E. Stiglitz highlights, "their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live ... It does not have to be this way. In The Price of Inequality Stiglitz lays out a comprehensive agenda to create a more dynamic economy and fairer and more equal society"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz

Guardian review of the book - http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/05/price-of-inequality-united-states

Does Income Inequality Hurt Countries?

We are rich enough. Economic growth has done as much as it can to improve material conditions in the developed countries, and in some cases appears to be damaging health. If Britain were instead to concentrate on making its citizens' incomes as equal as those of people in Japan and Scandinavia, we could each have seven extra weeks' holiday a year, we would be thinner, we would each live a year or so longer, and we'd trust each other more.

Book review - spirit level - Does Income Inequality Hurt Countries? http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/13/the-spirit-level

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfFNYHf6g74

26 min interview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y0sBsZfzJk&feature=related

1hr 30 min presentation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYDzA9hKCNQ&feature=related

Discussion with various economists - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWHFdEhsbxg&feature=related

Richard part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hd84ug3T6o

Part 2  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=NTTwzi09hU0

Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=0anAztcyRL8

Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising

The gap between rich and poor has widened in most OECD countries over the past 30 years. This occurred when countries were going through a sustained period of economic growth, before the Great Recession. What will happen now that 200 million people are out of work worldwide and prospects of growth are weak? New OECD analysis says that the trend to greater inequality is not inevitable: governments can and should act.

http://www.oecd.org/social/socialpoliciesanddata/49170768.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaoGscbtPWU

Wage inequality 'getting worse' in leading economies

The divide between the wages of the rich and the poor is growing in nearly all of the world's leading economies, according to think tank the OECD.

Researchers examined 22 countries and found that inequality grew in 17 of them between the 1980s and the financial crisis of 2008.

Chile, Mexico, Turkey and the United States were the most unequal nations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16012293

Downturn widens racial wealth gap in the US

It found the median wealth of white US households in 2009 was $113,149 (£69,000), compared with $6,325 for Hispanics and $5,677 for blacks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/14296246

Income inequality gap

Interesting wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality

Powerpoint presentations on Poverty, Inequality

Poverty and Inequality:
http://app.sliderocket.com/app/FullPlayer.aspx?id=d144e5ac-fdac-43dc-bc6a-2f60963744f1

Causes of poverty and inequality:
http://app.sliderocket.com/app/FullPlayer.aspx?id=20b136d7-ffe0-473e-bf61-0ce68db14d75

Poverty - govt policies:
http://app.sliderocket.com/app/FullPlayer.aspx?id=d2747112-ea68-4027-a152-fc4d6fc9945f