Tag: wealth

  • Resources for Wealth, Poverty, Income Inequality and Social Class

    good resources for teaching wealth, poverty, income inequality and social class. Useful further reading for students studying A-level sociology!

  • Visualising Global Wealth Inequalities

    Global inequality is one of the core themes in the Global Development option within A-level sociology, and visual infographics are a useful way of making global inequalities easier to understand. This post focuses on global wealth inequalities. Details of how wealth is measured are included at the bottom of this post. The Distribution of Wealth…

  • The impact of Coronavirus on Global Wealth

    This post focuses on a recent report produced by Credit Suisse. It is primarily written for students studying the Global Development option for A-level sociology, and is meant to serve as an update on Global inequalities! In 2019, Privately Owned Global Wealth had grown to $399 trillion, an almost 9% increase on the previous year,…

  • Nevis: A Tax Haven Preventing Positive Globalization?

    The Island of Nevis is the most secretive tax haven in the world. Nevis is a solitary volcano in the Caribbean, with a population of just 11, 000, notorious for its involvement in Britain’s biggest ever tax fraud, as well as having been implicated in many other sordid financial scams of modern times, such as…

  • Rich House, Poor House – Spreading the Myth of Meritocracy

    In this Channel 5 series, one family in the ‘wealthiest 10%’ of Britain swap lives for a week with a family in the ‘poorest 10% of Britain’. As I see it this programme performs an ‘ideological control function’ – spreading the myth of meritocracy. They two families swap houses, budgets and leisure-timetables for a week…

  • Trends in Global Wealth Inequality and Poverty

    Global wealth inequality is increasing, but how can we explain this, is this is a problem, and what could we do to make the world a more equal place? Trends in Global Wealth Inequality and Poverty According to the 2016 Global Wealth Report produced by Credit Suisse, wealth inequality in 2016, measured by the share of the wealthiest 1…

  • Wealth and Income inequality in the U.K.

    The richest 20% are 100 times wealthier than the poorest 20%, and their annual income is five times greater. This post explores statistics on wealth and income inequalities in the UK