British Journal of Sociology

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16 October 2026 11:14

This article highlights intergenerational inequality in Australia to be an adulthood-spanning, relational process, and underscores the growing role of family wealth in sustaining wellbeing amid housing insecurity and welfare retrenchment. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/KS0zix4

Thomas Piketty

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05 October 2026 11:30

What would it take to achieve high prosperity and equality while remaining within planetary boundaries? The World Inequality Lab is very excited to launch the #GlobalJusticeReport. [1/7]

Prof Bill McGuire

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22 September 2026 12:29

We are systematically and consciously destroying the natural world So that a tiny elite can become ever richer There WILL be a reckoning www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Doug Parr

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04 September 2026 08:48

Spain wants to tax fossil fuel producers in order to fund climate adaptation An application of the 'polluter pays' principle Economists estimate cost of climate-change induced drought in Europe this summer was €50bn, one bank says €180bn Someone's got to pay for it www.ft.com/content/86da...

Sam Friedman

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02 September 2026 08:18

New! We know elites work hard to be seen as ordinary.But do people believe them?We use experiments to explore what happens when performances of ordinariness are undermined (and why this matters for income inequality) Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...