Sedan finanskrisen 2008 har glappet mellan fattiga och rika ökat stort på många håll och klyftorna fortsätter att växa. Allt fler ställer sig frågan: hur mycket ojämlikhet kan ett samhälle tåla?

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P3 Dystopia tar sig an det som kallats för vår tids mest centrala problem: den ekonomiska ojämlikheten.

Medverkande

• Richard Wilkinson – Professor emeritus i social epidemiologi vid University of Nottingham

• Malin Nilsson – socialhistoriker och forskare vid ekonomisk-historiska institutionen vid Lunds universitet

• Erik Bengtsson – biträdande lektor i ekonomisk historia vid Lunds universitet

• Göran Therborn – professor i sociologi vid Cambridge

• Joanna Mack – forskar om fattigdom vid universitetet i Bristol

• Karin Svanborg-Sjövall – VD på tankesmedjan Timbro

Böcker

• The Road to Wigan Pier – George Orwell (1937)

• The Lion and the Unicorn – George Orwell (1941)

• Snow Crash – Neil Stephenson (1992)

• Inequality and the one percent – Danny Dorling (2019)

• Do We Need Economic Inequality? – Danny Dorling (2018)

Video- och ljudklipp

• This is what inequality looks like | Johnny Miller | TEDxJohannesburg (2017)

• Obama: Income inequality is defining challenge for the U.S. – PBS Newshour (2013)

• Ray Dalio: The issue of our time is the wealth gap (Fox Business, 2017)

• Buffett: Income inequality hurting economy (CNN Business, 2013)

• Pope Francis takes on income inequality (Fox Business, 2018)

• 8 billionaires as rich as half of world combined: Oxfam (CTV News, 2017)

• Fattigpensionärerna blir fler (P4 Västmanland, 2019)

• How economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson (TED, 2011)

• One Nation Under Stress: Deaths of Despair in the United States (HBO, 2019)

• Stress, portrait of a killer (National Geographics, 2008)

• The End of Poverty? (2008)

• The Pop Up Festival of Dangerous Ideas: David Simon: Some People Are More Equal Than Others (2013)

• No Fair! (This American Life, 2019)

• Does money make you mean? | Paul Piff (TED, 2013)

• Calif. Assembly Speaker Calls Gig Economy ‘F*****g Feudalism’ (KMJNOW, 2019)

• Inequality - how wealth becomes power (DW Documentary, 2018)

• Who are the 'gilets jaunes' (yellow vest) protesters? (FRANCE 24 English, 2018)

• Poor worker conditions power gig economy (Financial Times, 2016)

• Average CEO Pay vs. Worker Pay: 204 to 1 (Bloomberg, 2013)

• CEOs made 164 times more than their average workers (CBS, 2018)

• CEO income at nations conglomerates up to 142 times higher than employee average (ARIRANG NEWS, 2015)

• Top CEOs Make 373 Times the Average U.S. Worker (Wall Street Journal, 2015)

• Top executives earn 184 times average worker salary (CBC News, 2016)

• Special report : Inside the Congo cobalt mines that exploit children (Sky News, 2017)

• Special report: Revisiting the cobalt-mining boys (Sky News, 2017)

• Furtenbach: Reformerna ökar klyftorna (Ekot, 2019)

Artiklar i urval

• Hur påverkar ojämlikheten den socioekonomiska rörligheten? Gatsby-kurvan och dess mekanismer – Gunnar Brandén (2019)

• 44 000 barn lever i familjer med varaktigt låg inkomst – SCB (2019)

• You Call It the Gig Economy. California Calls It ‘Feudalism.’ – Miriam Pawel, 2019

• Ekonomisk ojämlikhet inte alltid ett problem – Ellen Gustafsson, Dagens Industri (2019)

• Action needed to tackle stalled social mobility – OECD (2018)

• Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens - Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page (Cambridge, 2014)

• Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior – Paul K. Piff et al. (2012)

• Noblesse oblige? Social status and economic inequality maintenance among politicians. Kraus MW, Callaghan B (2014) 

• How Economic Inequality Inflicts Real Biological Harm – Robert M. Sapolsky (2018)

• Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function – Anandi Mani et al. (2013)

• Income Inequality and School Bullying: Multilevel Study of Adolescents in 37 Countries - Frank J.Elgar et al. (2009)

• Inequality and Violent Crime - Pablo Fajnzylber et al. (2002)

• Inequality and Crime – Morgan Kelly (2000)

• Income inequality and violent crime: Evidence from Mexico's drug war - Ted Enamorado et al. (2016)

• World report on violence and health (WHO, 2002)

• Jag cyklade i två veckor för Uber Eats – tjänade 39 kronor i timmen – Erik Wisterberg (2017)

• Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Job Control on Plasma Fibrinogen Responses to Acute Mental Stress - Andrew Steptoe et al. (2003)

• Who’s Top Monkey? How Social Status Affects Immune Health - Catherine Caruso (2016)

• How the Financial Crisis Drastically Increased Wealth Inequality in the U.S. – Moritz Kuhn et al (2018)

• Understanding the socio-economic divide in Europe (OECD, 2017)

• How Much Does Reducing Inequality Matter for Global Poverty? – Cristoph Lakner et al. (Världsbanken, 2019)

• IMF's Work on Income Inequality (IMF, 2019)

• Inequality Is Holding Back the U.S. Economy - Justin Lahart (Wall Street Journal, 2019)

• Makteliten – utan markkontakt (LO, 2019)

• Lobbying for Profits: Private Companies and the Privatization of the Welfare State in Sweden - Stefan Svallfors and Anna Tyllström (Institute for future studies, 2017)

• Dags för omprövning – en ESO-rapport om styrning av offentlig verksamhet – Per Molander (2017)

• Assessing the impact of rising child poverty on the unprecedented rise in infant mortality in England, 2000–2017: time trend analysis - David Taylor-Robinson et al. (2019)

• Statement on Visit to the United Kingdom, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights – Philip Alston (2018)

• Visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – Philip Alston (UN Human Rights Council, 2019)

• DR Congo mine collapse death toll rises to 43 (Al-Jazeera 2019)

• DR Congo: Illegal mine suffers deadly collapse in Kampene (BBC, 2019)

• Congo’s miners dying to feed world’s hunger for electric cars (The Times, 2019)

• The Great Sorting - Ben Rogers (LRB, 2018)

• Pop your own abscess - Rory Scothorne (LRB, 2018)

• How messy it all is - David Runciman (LRB, 2009)

• Paupers and Richlings - Benjamin Kunkel (LRB, 2014)

• Take your pick - James C. Scott (LRB, 2017)

• Just Be Grateful - Jamie Martin (LRB, 2015)

• Foursomes and so on - Steven Mithen (LRB, 2013)

Musik

• WOW MOM WOW – Tryptoreal

• Cliff Martinez – Get us to the front line

• Kid Loco – Theme From a Graffiti Artist

• Cliff Martinez – There is nothing here

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Clue One

• Marcus Bagalà – Boxes: Autumnal Moping

• Marcus Bagalà – Cascading Bells

• Cliff Martinez – Not Leaving This Circus

• Ben Puntry – Mantis (Explore)

• Vince Pope – Who are you?

• Calexico – Untitled III, remix by Two Lone Swordsmen

• Sophie Harris – Driving to Prison

• Nine Inch Nails – 09 Ghosts I

• Cliff Martinez – Will she come back?

• Michael McCann – The Mole

• Django Reinhardt – Brazil

• Jon Brion – You Learn

• Dj Shadow – Stem/Long Stem

• Sophie Harris – Exhumation

• Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – Dream Reality

• Hazel Dickens – Fire in the Hole