Inequality: fostering the debate

Welcome to the start of a conversation about inequality. This is a joint project between myself, as the editor of the recently published Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis, and the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services, one of the book’s supporters. We’ve created this site as a way for people to understand more about…

Do high salaries really encourage harder work?

People often claim that high salaries are needed to create incentives for harder work – and so inequality is justified. But this short animated talk, about what motivates us, rather suggests otherwise. In it, author Dan Pink talks about how a lot of research shows that incentive-based payments don’t result in people working harder or…