Psychology Of Economic Inequality

Jim Orford is Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a longstanding, internationally recognised researcher and writer in the fields of community psychology and addiction.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 What is economic inequality? Inequalities of income and wealth.- Chapter 3 Distractions: poverty, mobility, and social class.- Chapter 4 Why it matters for individual health and well-being.- Chapter 5 Why it matters for collective well-being.- Chapter 6 Lack of awareness, system justification, and merit beliefs.- Chapter 7 Blaming and shaming, and the role of culture, mass media, and the educational system.- Chapter 8 Bad economics.- Chapter 9 Politics and the hidden nature of power.- Chapter 10 Toward a fairer society: standing up to economic inequality.