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Redefining Equality
Speaker: Peter Kellner, President YouGov
Venue: Howard Lecture Theatre, Downing College Cambridge (map)
Date/time: 25th April 2013 6pm. Registration will open at 5.40. There will be a drinks reception following the talk in the Grace Howard Room, on the ground floor of the Howard Theatre.
This event is supported by Cambridge Public Policy
Our speaker will argue that equality remains a long-term goal for progressive politics, but that it needs a new definition, so that we measure equality and inequality less by reference to Gini coefficients of income, or data on wealth, and more by access to the things that enable people to lead fulfilling lives - such as decent housing, universal access to good quality schools and healthcare, clean air, places for children to play safely, crime-free neighbourhoods and so on. And where we do consider income inequality, we should be clear about the distinctions between justifiable inequality (e.g. resulting from effort, talent, risk-taking etc) and unjustifiable inequality (e.g. race and gender differences).
Read our web story here.
A video recording of Peter's presentation can be found here.
Interview with Peter Kellner can be found here.
Peter Kellner
YouGov
Professor Dame Theresa Marteau
Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU), University of Cambridge