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If you want a deep and even-handed project to rethink egalitarianism for the current age, turn to Towards a more equal society? ... The academics reporting in this volume have conducted painstaking statistical analysis. There are no cartoons, diverting vignettes or uplifting quotations. But the narrative - cautious, nuanced, understated - is all the more persuasive for that. If we want a fairer society, let us start with the facts. Richard Reeves, The Observer Hills is the great authority, the chief examiner most feared and respected, social policy's equivalent of an Ofsted inspector. This great tome, with its hundreds of graphs and tables, will prove to be the definitive academic judgment. Polly Toynbee, The Guardian Welfare reform has been at the heart of the New Labour project. This book is the definitive assessment of those reforms: where they succeeded, where they failed - and why. Alan Deacon, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds The LSE's mighty judgement on inequality Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, on A More Equal Society

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John Hills is Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)and Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science(LSE). Tom Sefton was formerly a research fellow at CASE, and now works for the Church Urban Fund. Kitty Stewart is a lecturer in social policy at LSE and a research associate at CASE.

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