2025-02-24
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Good evening everyone.
It's my great pleasure to be able to welcome you to the LSE this evening on behalf of the Department of Sociology and the International Inequality Institute.
My name is Aaron Reeves.
I'm a Professor of Sociology here in the Department of Sociology and we're here tonight to reflect on the kinds of issues connected to inequality and injustice as raised,
I think, by Danny's recent book, Peak Inequality.
Danny is Halford MacKinder,
Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford where he is also a Fellow of St Peter's College.
To my mind, at least, Danny is a relatively unusual among contemporary academics.
I've actually not spoken to him about this but this is my main reflection.
But around the Great Recession in 2008,
it seems to me that something changed in his work and also in the way that he approached his craft.
Before that he was a well-known and successful academic geographer working on a wide variety of topics.
But since then Danny has become a consistent social critic arguing in one memorable turn of phrase
that as a society if we can be slightly less stupid then we'll all be better off for it.
What makes Danny stand out then is the way he operates within the tradition,
I think, of public intellectuals and as a writer he seems almost inexhaustible.
He has this remarkable habit of writing books roughly one a year certainly over at least the last 15 years.
Although the eagle-eyed among you will notice