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The Rich in London: Laurie Taylor explores the impact of the very wealthy & super rich on the Alpha City. Also, what attitudes do people have to the rich in different countries?

The Rich: Laurie Taylor talks to Rowland Atkinson, Research Chair in Inclusive Societies at the University of Sheffield, about his study of London as an 'Alpha City'. Compared to New York or Tokyo, the two cities that bear the closest comparison, it has the largest number of wealthy people per head of population. Has London been transformed into a 'capital for capital' , marginalising the needs of the majority of its population? They're joined by the historian and sociologist, Rainer Zitelmann, who has conducted the first, large scale study into attitudes towards the rich and argues that social envy can lead to scapegoating and finds intriguing differences of opinion amongst Americans, Germans, the British and French.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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29 minutes

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Mon 2 Nov 2020 00:15

READING LIST

Rainer Zitelmann, The Rich in Public Opinion: What We Think When We Think about Wealth (Trade Select Cato Institute, 2020)Β 

Rowland Atkinson, Alpha City, How London was captured by the Super-Rich (Verso, 2020)

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  • Wed 28 Oct 2020 16:00
  • Mon 2 Nov 2020 00:15

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