Open AccessWho cares about income inequality?
Author(s) -
Philip Morrison
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v11i1.4519
Subject(s) - inequality , economic inequality , sociology , demographic economics , political science , development economics , economics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
On the eve of the lecture by the authors of The Spirit Level at the University of Auckland in May 2014, Tim Hazledine pointed to a 2006 international survey which found that New Zealanders were less supportive of redistributing income from the rich to the poor than people in most other nations in the survey. ‘I don’t think that leads to saying all is well’, Hazledine said. ‘I think inequality is a problem. But we have to understand why we tolerate it’; ‘We have to understand why we don’t have blood flowing in the streets’ (Collins, 2014).