Super Rich: The Rise of Inequality in Britain and the United States

"Could not be more timely ... Irvin's book provides much food for thought, bringing together a huge amount of evidence on the changing nature of income distribution and its impacts on society."
Times Higher Education

"Irvin's book is timely and prescient. His analysis is thorough and strongly supported with statistics, his support for a Nordic model welfare state is eminently sensible and his defence of an ideal of equality passionate."
Australian Journal of Political Science

"Will be of interest to anyone with a concern for inequality. The book details uncomfortable home truths about economic inequality and has many real-life examples which make for important reading."
Sociology

"Super Rich discusses a truly real issue in today's western economies and offers many intriguing insights, highly recommended."
Midwest Book Review

"Last week the Dow tumbled below 10,000 and kept right on falling. George Irvin explains what happened in his most timely new book, Super Rich. With clarity and empathy ... he traces a transatlantic tale of times good and then greedy."
Too Much

"During the last 25 years the economic and political histories of Britain and the United States have shared many features; among these is the prodigious enrichment of a small super rich minority on the one hand, and the persistence of serious poverty on the other. Irvin utilizes an impressively wide range of sources of data and analysis to provide a provocative, enlightening and accessible account of the growth of economic unjustice. This book should both generate heated debate and provoke action."
Bob Sutcliffe, formerly of University of the Basque Country, Bilbao

"The seemingly inexorable rise of inequality of income and wealth is the social equivalent of global warming – except that it is happening much more in some societies, notably the US and the UK, than others, notably the Nordics. George Irvin provides a fascinating account of the causes and the consequences of growing inequality; and at the end a plausible agenda of public policy to curb the rise without generating harmful societal side-effects. He writes from a distinctly Left perspective; but unlike a lot of Left writing the English here is accessible to the general reader, with interesting facts and stories on every page. It is particularly recommended for politicians and economists who declare that they are concerned about poverty but not inequality, and for the police, MI5 and the FBI who have to handle the consequences of inequality-driven social distrust and unrest."
Robert Wade, London School of Economics