List of figures and tables

Figures

1    Children by ability in the Netherlands, according to the OECD, 2006 (%)

2    Distribution of children by ability, according to the OECD, 2006 (%)

3    School-leaving age (years) and university entry (%), Britain, 1876–2013

4    Male and female Nobel (and economics) laureates, by subject, 1901–2008

5    Female Nobel laureates (%), by decade, worldwide, 1901–2008

6    Proportion of households poor by different measures (%), Britain, 1999

7    Geographical distribution of paupers, England and Wales, 1891

8    Circling from exclusion to inclusion and back again (model)

9    Distribution of income inequality (US$), worldwide, 2000

10  Real growth per decade in GDP (%), per person, by continent, 1955–2001

11  Households’ ability to get by on their income in Britain, 1984–2004

12  Inequalities in survival chances to age 65 by area in Britain, 1920–2006

13  Concentration of Conservative votes, British general elections, 1918–2005

14  Share of all income received by the richest 1% in Britain, 1918–2005

15  England and Wales’ net immigration by birth year, 1840–2080

16  Households by number of cars and those with no cars in Britain, 2006/07

17  Outstanding consumer debt as a proportion of disposable income, US, 1975–2005

18  Poverty, car exhaust emissions and pollution inhaled in Britain, by area, 1999

19  Social security and taxation prosecutions, Australia, 1989–2003

20  Debt payments as a percentage of disposable income, US, 1980–2008

21  Adolescent girls assessed as depressed (%), North America, 1984–2001

22  Male: female mortality ratio by age in the rich world, 1850–1999

23  The fractal nature of geographical divides, North–South/West–East, Britain, 2010

24  The crash: US mortgage debt, 1977–2009 (% change and US$ billion)

25  The rate of prescribing anti-depressants by the NHS in Scotland, 1992–2006

Tables

1    Proportions that suffer injustices of different kinds in affluent nations

2    Injustices, social evils, political, philosophical and public labels combined

3    Pearson goodness-of-fit test of Nobel prize by sex and subject, 1901–2008

4    Pearson goodness-of-fit test of Karl Pearson’s pauper data, 1891

5    Inequalities of health, privilege and wealth (%), Britain, 1918–2005

6    Additional debt added annually by sector (US$ billion), US, 1977–2008

7    Studies of adolescent depression available for meta-analysis, 1973–2006