PART I: WEALTH AND DISTRIBUTION
1: John Hills: Introduction
2: John Hills and Francesca Bastagli: Trends in the Distribution of
Wealth in Britain
3: Frank Cowell: UK Wealth Inequality in International Context
PART II: PERSONAL WEALTH ACCUMULATION AND ITS IMPACTS
4: Francesca Bastagli and John Hills: Wealth Accumulation, Ageing,
and House Prices
5: Eleni Karagiannaki and John Hills: Inheritance, Transfers, and
the Distribution of Wealth
6: Abigail McKnight and Eleni Karagiannaki: The Wealth Effect: How
Parental Wealth and Own Asset-Holdings Predict Future Advantage
PART III: WEALTH AND POLICY
7: Howard Glennerster: Differing Public Policy Traditions
8: John Hills and Howard Glennerster: Public Policy, Wealth, and
Assets: A Complex and Inconsistent Story
9: John Hills and Howard Glennerster: Wealth and Policy: Where Do
We Go From Here?
John Hills is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Centre
for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of
Economics. His research interests include income distribution and
the welfare state, social security, housing and taxation. He led an
independent review of the measurement of fuel poverty for the
Department of Energy and Climate Change that reported in March
2012. He was also Chair of the National Equality Panel (2008-2010),
carried
out a review of the aims of social housing for the Secretary of
State for Communities in 2006-07 and was one of the three members
of the UK Pensions Commission from 2003 to 2006. He was Co-Director
of
the LSE's Welfare State Programme (1988-1997), and Senior Adviser
to the Commission of Inquiry into Taxation, Zimbabwe (1984-86). He
worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (1982-84), for the House
of Commons Select Committee on the Treasury (1980-82), and at the
Department of the Environment (1979-80).
Francesca Bastagli is Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of
Social Exclusion, London School of Economics. Her research focusses
on poverty and inequality, public policy evaluation, and
international comparative social policy.
Frank Cowell is Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
and Director of the Public Economics Programme, STICERD. He is
editor of Economica and Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic
Inequality. His research interests include income and wealth
distribution, inequality and poverty, and issues in taxation. His
work has appeared in several leading journals and his publications
include The Economics of Poverty and Inequality (Edward Elgar,
2006), Microeconomics: Principles and
Analysis (OUP, 2008), and Measuring Inequality, 3e (OUP, 2011).
Howard Glennerster is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the
LSE and an associate member of CASE. Over 40 years, he has written
widely on public expenditure and public finance in the social
policy field especially. He was a contributing author to the first
edition of 'The State of Welfare: The Economics of Social Spending'
(OUP,1990) and co-editor of, and contributor to, the second edition
(1998). He is co-author with John Hills and Tony Travers of' Paying
for Health Education and Housing'
(OUP, 2000), author of 'British Social Policy: 1945 to the Present'
(Blackwells, 2007), and of 'Understanding the Finance of Welfare'
published (Policy Press, 2e, 2008).
Eleni Karagiannaki is Research Officer at the Centre for Analysis
of Social Exclusion, LSE.
Abigail McKnight is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for
Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics. Dr
McKnight's research interests include low wage employment and
labour market inequality, the distribution of wealth, asset-based
welfare, evaluation of active labour market programmes, social
mobility, and the economics of education.
`A really important new book ... an authoritative study on the
distribution of UK wealth.'
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