Prof. Paul Dolan on Prospect Magazine: What coronavirus reveals about social mobility

“A society with high social mobility is one where it is relatively easy for someone’s social status to change. The emphasis in the UK is to ensure that people from working-class backgrounds have the greatest possible opportunity to enter middle-class professions. Social mobility is typically seen as being unequivocally good. There is an emphasis on the benefits of climbing the ladders of social status, and hardly any discussion of the impact of sliding down the snakes, which can be very costly for wellbeing.”

Read the full article here.