Andrew G Haldane — Unfair Shares

Inequality has become the issue du jour – especially, it seems, when it is expressed in French. Yet until recently, inequality was a deeply unfashionable topic among academics and policymakers. Until the crisis, it is difficult to identify a period in the past 50 years when inequality was close to the top of the public policy or academic agenda (Stiglitz (2012)).

Bank of England
Unfair Shares
Remarks given by Andrew G Haldane, Executive Director, Financial Stability and member of the Financial Policy Committee
At the Bristol Festival of Ideas event, Bristol, 21 May 2014