The Inequality Crisis

"A compelling and insightful analysis of the current state of economic and social inequalities in the UK.... provides a powerful springboard for a wide ranging and convincing consideration of how inequality works, and the ways in which it may be combatted, that has worldwide significance. Its compelling and authoritative account will reinvigorate debates on inequality and how it might be tackled. Essential reading for all those concerned about growing inequality in Britain." Diane Reay, University of Cambridge

"Roger Brown doesn't just give us a lucid and comprehensive explanation of inequality in Britain: he wants action and advances policy recommendations that deserve to be chewed over, right, left and centre." David Walker, The Guardian

“Roger Brown’s book adds to our understanding of the extent of wealth and income inequalities in the UK, and of the ways in which they are increasing; and, sadly, it adds to our understanding of the UK government’s promises to act on the problem, and of its failure to do so. This book is significant both for its broad canvas and for the level of details it contains.” Citizen’s Income

"An authoritative and up-to-date account of the drivers of economic inequality in the UK." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford

"Indispensable. All you need to know about the inequality crisis – causes, consequences and controversies – in one place." Stewart Lansley, author of A Sharing Economy and Breadline Britain

"A short, necessary and powerful book which demonstrates how inequality causes significant and avoidable injuries, but is also bound up with widely held virtues. Roger Brown calls for the language and means for the virtuous reduction of harms." John Holmwood, University of Nottingham

Roger Brown is the former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. He has been a professor or visiting professor at 10 other universities and held other senior posts in higher education. In 2013 he received the Times Higher Education Lifetime Achievement Award.

Before that, he was a senior civil servant at the Department of Trade and Industry and an administrator with the Inner London Education Authority. He has served on many national committees and boards.

He has written four books and many articles and lectures on different aspects of higher education as an international authority on the application of market-based policies to higher education.

Foreword by Kate Pickett, University of York

The meaning and extent of inequality

Inequality: for and against;

Structural causes of rising inequality;

Institutional causes of rising inequality;

Tackling rising inequality through taxes and transfers;

Tackling rising inequality through policy reform;

Looking ahead.