# Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli
- Year: 2007
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Business and management, Philosophy
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/stealing-silver-how-we-take-dispossessed-poor-and-our-own)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending amoral, or perhaps even immoral, economics. Regressive taxes, the BBC licence fee, pollution, the Common Agricultural Policy, postcode lotteries and pensions appropriations are all examples where wealth or risk are transferred among segments of the population, or among generations, with social and ethical consequences. What lessons, if any, can help us to understand what we're doing, and do it better?

## Lectures

1. [Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/stealing-silver-how-we-take-dispossessed-poor-and-our-own/76492d5085a9) (YouTube)