The aim of the podcast is to make a more accessible space for thinking and talking about wealth as a social problem, and specifically, for thinking about the effects of extreme private wealth ownership on social and environmental sustainability.
Episode one explores the role of wealth in the widening sense of economic insecurity and electoral volatility, with Professor Jane Green.
Episode two gets to grips with what we mean by poverty and wealth and what the relationships is between them, Professor Mike Savage and Professor Jonathan Wolff. Is there something specific about wealth as form of economic resource that should change how we think and talk about poverty or inequality?
Episode three considers the history of wealth and its implications in the contemporary racial wealth divide Professor Gurminder Bhambra.
Episode four asks whether there should be limits on wealth with Fernanda Balataand Luke Hildyard. Is there a point (and if so, what is the point) at which wealth causes social harm? What is ‘enough’?
Episode five uncovers the hidden world of tax expenditures with Professor Adrian Sinfieldand asks why we know so little about a huge government expenditure that benefits higher income earners most.
Episode six asks ‘Why is it so hard to do anything about it?’, with Will Snell, Dr Michael Vaughan, Dr Jonathan Mijs. What is it about public attitudes and perceptions of the economy, of wealth, the wealthy and wealth inequality that makes change hard to achieve?
