For all the emphasis we place on our multicultural cities…

“Davos has become the emblem of a global elite that has lost its ability to listen.”

— Edward Luce

“By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been treading water…

— Edward Luce

“Cowen detects conformism even in the liveliest Silicon Valley companies. Most of its denizens wear some variation on the casual hipster uniform and all…

— Edward Luce

“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no monopoly on…

— Edward Luce

“Almost half of Americans would be unable to pay a $400 medical emergency bill without going into debt.67”

— Edward Luce

“In the US, the more liberal a city’s politics, the higher the rate of inequality.45”

— Edward Luce

“With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.”

— Edward Luce

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

“the Toil Index – the number of working hours it takes a median worker to pay the median rent in one of America’s big…

— Edward Luce

“Today’s equivalent is probably ‘get an engineering degree’, but it will not necessarily be as lucrative. A third of Americans who graduated in STEM…

— Edward Luce

“Shortly afterwards Addis Ababa launched a crackdown on its opponents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. If America’s president was in two minds about…

— Edward Luce

“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.”

— Edward Luce

“In 1970 only about one in seven American families lived in neighbourhoods that were unambiguously ‘affluent’ or ‘poor’.40 By 2007 that number had risen…

— Edward Luce

“M + D = C, Monopoly plus Discretion equals Corruption”

— Edward Luce

“No bourgeoisie, no democracy.”

— Edward Luce