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Sarah Kerr

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Sarah Kerr is a Visiting Fellow at LSE International Inequalities Institute. She is a sociologist of wealth, interested in the histories of contemporary wealth distributions, the harms (social, political, democratic) caused by wealth hyper-concentration, and new thinking about what can be done.

She is author of Wealth, Poverty & Enduring Inequality: Let's Talk Wealtherty, and host of the Antisocial Economics podcast. She is co-author of several reports on wealth narratives with colleagues Michael Vaughan and Annalena Oppel. She is currently working for JRF as Narrative & Policy lead for the Transforming Wealth Lab.

Expertise

Sociology of wealth and the historical sociology of wealth; Wealth narratives and framing; Wealth and justice