This essay, on claims that half the world is now middle class, was my Observer column this week.   (The column included also a short piece on the difference between engaging with public anxieties and following public opinion). It was published in the Observer, 7 October 2018, under the headline ‘As global poverty declines, we should beware the new class wars’. Half the world is now middle class. So ran the headlines reporting a Brookings Institution analysis of global poverty, according […]

Categories: Class, Politics • Tags: china, economic development, india, middle class, poverty, working class