Wealth inequality

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Wealth inequality

The degree to which wealth is distributed unequally in an economy or population; wealth inequality can be illustrated using a Lorenz Curve and measured using the Gini coefficient.

Macro Case Study: USA and Inequality

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Macro Case Study: India's development

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In the News Teaching Activity - Why have Dyson’s profits been falling? (Oct 2025)

6th October 2025
Wealth Inequality in the UK - Should There Be a Wealth Tax?

27th May 2025
Poverty & Inequality: The Economic Divide Explained

3rd March 2025
Development Economics in 2025: Challenges and Opportunities for Emerging Markets - Livestream Notes

20th February 2025
The Billionaire Boom: Wealth Concentration and Stalled Poverty Reduction

20th January 2025
Working but Poor: Why UK Families Struggle Amid Record Poverty

21st November 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – are the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer in the UK? (May 2024)

23rd May 2024
In the News Teaching Activity – why are house prices stagnating in the UK? (May 2024)

13th May 2024
Edexcel A-Level Economics (A) Theme 4 Knowledge Organiser Pack 1

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Inequality in the UK - most disadvantaged in Britain are no better off than 15 years ago

10th December 2023
In the News Teaching Activity: A Minimum Tax for Billionaires? (Oct 2023)

30th October 2023
4.2.2 Inequality (Edexcel A-Level Economics Teaching PowerPoint)

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4.2.2 Inequality (Edexcel)

Study Notes
What is the difference between income and wealth?

Study Notes
What factors affect the value of household wealth in the UK?

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Gini Coefficient

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Key Diagrams - The Lorenz Curve

Topic Videos
Inequality - Incomes of richest 1% in the USA surge

22nd February 2023
What are the main arguments put forward in The Spirit Level by Pickett and Wilkinson?

Study Notes
Stiglitz on the Case for 70% Tax Rate on High Income Earners

23rd January 2023
Does the UK need a wealth tax on millionaires and billionaires?

17th January 2023
Call for wealth tax as number of UK billionaires jumps 20% since 2020

19th December 2022
Fiscal Policy - How Much Could be Raised by a Wealth Tax?

27th October 2022
Fixing inequality and insecurity in the USA

8th October 2022
Poverty and Inequality - Risks higher for black and minority ethnic people in UK

7th October 2022
Surge in UK CEO pay reignites debate over CEO pay caps

22nd August 2022
Stagnation Nation - In Work Poverty, Inequality and Fragility in the face of Economic Shocks

13th July 2022
Labour Market Update: Tesco raises pay and the top 1% take more income

8th April 2022
The Decade The Rich Won

1st February 2022
2022 Oxfam Inequality Report - Wealth of world's 10 richest men doubled in pandemic

18th January 2022
UK sees first mid-recession wealth boom since the mid-1940s

12th July 2021
Why concentration of wealth makes the US economy fragile

24th June 2021
DRC’s rich soil bears few riches for its miners

17th May 2021
Is K the new U? How economic recovery may be K-shaped

27th January 2021
Relative Poverty - 2021 Revision Update

Study Notes
Is Trickle-Down Economics Dead?

21st December 2020
Should the UK introduce a new wealth tax?

6th July 2020
Piketty on whether coronavirus might lead to fairer societies

14th May 2020
Economics of the Crisis - Inequalities and the Pandemic [Head Start in A-Level Economics]

Topic Videos
Evaluating Supply Side Policies (Online Lesson)

Online Lessons
Introduction to Globalisation [Head Start in A-Level Economics]

Online Lessons
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - The Bigger Picture

4th February 2020
New Economic Thinking: What is happening to Inequality Now?

4th February 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - What is Happening?

4th February 2020
New Economic Thinking: How Do We Measure Inequality?

4th February 2020
New Economic Thinking: Inequality - Why Should We Care?

4th February 2020
Who are the super-rich in the UK?

23rd January 2020
Income Inequality and Wealth Inequality

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Six tax-based ways to tackle inequality

18th December 2019
Distribution of Income (2019 Update)

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Basic Income and Universal Basic Services - free access to a live debate on possible policies for the UK's social security system

12th July 2019
How economic inequality might affect a society's well-being

4th June 2019
Synoptic Economics: Micro & Macro Policies to reduce Income Inequality

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Why The Inequality Gap Is Growing Between Rich And Poor

31st May 2019
Maths Made Easy for A-Level Economics - Quantiles

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The Dutch Historian who savaged the Davos Elite

2nd February 2019
What explains the divide between rich and poor?

Study Notes
Sky News/IPPR poll on the UK economy - download our worksheet

5th September 2018
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK in 2018

20th June 2018
Should the Super-Rich Pay for a Universal Basic Income?

16th April 2018
Micro and Macro Influences on Income Inequality in Developing Countries

Study Notes
Richest 1% own half of the world's wealth

17th November 2017
How Tax and Spending Policies Can Reduce Poverty and Inequality

20th September 2017
Archbishop of Canterbury says UK economic model is 'broken'. What does this mean to a new student of economics?

6th September 2017
Should the rich be taxed more?

2nd September 2017
Fresh Perspectives on Wealth, Savings and Health Inequalities

8th August 2017

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