Sliding down the Great Gatsby curve in search of the Scandinavian dream

Machin, Stephen ORCID: 0009-0004-8130-2701 and Major, Lee Elliott (2024) Sliding down the Great Gatsby curve in search of the Scandinavian dream. LSE Inequalities (09 Oct 2024). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

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”?

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Economics
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2025 10:06
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2025 03:15
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127434

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