Kieran Madden in the National Business Review

The NBR ran Kieran Madden’s response to a recent lecture by the authors of “The Spirit Level,” Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson.

He argues that concerns about inequality and the harmful effects of “status anxiety” are based on shaky academic ground, and run the risk of distracting people from tackling the real problem of poverty. Read Kieran’s article on poverty and inequality in the NBR here (paywalled)