Who are the 1% and the 99%?
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BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2011
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Tim Harford on income inequality in the UK, and elsewhere. He speaks to Professor Sir Tony Atkinson of Oxford University; Stewart Lansley, author of 'The Cost of Inequality'; and Professor Donald Boudreaux of George Mason University. Also, David Spiegelhalter, the Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University explains why he took on what could be his riskiest venture to date - appearing on BBC One's Winter Wipeout. Plus, the magic of maths with magician and Stanford maths professor Persi Diaconis.
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| 0:48.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less, your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life. We're about 50% festive |
| 0:56.2 | this week as we interview a professor of the statistics of risk about what could be his |
| 1:01.1 | riskiest venture to date, |
| 1:02.8 | an outing on prime time television. |
| 1:05.2 | Yes, yes, uh-oh. |
| 1:08.0 | We'll present a special guest appearance from a gifted mathematician, not a household name, but one hugely admired by famous magicians such as this one. |
| 1:20.0 | He's a secret legend that every profession has them. |
| 1:24.4 | Paul Daniels, who apparently is a loyal more or less listener. |
| 1:28.8 | We'll also be dealing with the serious economic and statistical issues of the day. |
| 1:34.8 | My name is Paul Carroll and I have a question. |
| 1:41.2 | Would you please explain as precisely as you can who are the 1% and who are the other 99%? |
| 1:52.0 | From the camp outside St Paul's Cathedral in London |
| 1:55.0 | to Zuccotti Park in Manhattan |
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