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Wealth Fairness:  how much does it matter and how should it be addressed?

Amol Rajan and guests discuss how the distribution of wealth in the UK has changed over time, what impacts that is having and whether we should now  rethink how it  is shared.

Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again  in the conversations and essays of 2020.  The pandemic brought renewed focus on how we value those who have kept shelves stacked, transport running and the old and sick cared for. So is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift in how our society and economy work?  The first programme looks at wealth in the UK - who has it and how that has changed over the decades, if it is becoming harder to acquire and whether or not that matters.               

Contributors 
Paul Johnson,  economist and director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Mohammed El Erian,  chief economic adviser at financial services multinational Allianz and president of Queens’ College, Cambridge
Dame Louise Casey,  former homelessness tsar and adviser to four prime ministers on social issues 
Karolina Gerlich, ex-care worker and  head of the Care Workers Charity

Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Editor: Rosamund Jones

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Five discussions on one theme: fairness. Amol Rajan and guests take on wealth, health, educational, regional and generational divides.

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