Sliding down the Great Gatsby curve in search of the Scandinavian dream
Machin, S.
& Major, L. E.
(9 October 2024)
Sliding down the Great Gatsby curve in search of the Scandinavian dream.
LSE Inequalities.
& Major, L. E.
(9 October 2024)
Sliding down the Great Gatsby curve in search of the Scandinavian dream.
LSE Inequalities.
The new UK government has separate missions to break down the barriers to opportunity and to boost growth – together, the “Scandinavian dream”. The problem, write Steve Machin and Lee Elliot Major, is Britain’s high level of income inequality, since less equal societies tend to be less socially mobile. Given this, how should policymakers look to realise the “British dream”?