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Danny Dorling


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in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, The United Kingdom
January 16, 1968

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Danny Dorling is a British social geographer researching inequality and human geography. He is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford.

Danny Dorling has lived all his life in England. To try to counter his myopic world view, in 2006, Danny started working with a group of researchers on a project to remap the world (www.worldmapper.org).
He has published with many colleagues more than a dozen books on issues related to social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. Much of this work is available open access and will be added to this website soon.

His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty. Danny was employed a
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Born to Rule is a fascinating book, with only a few small...

Born to Rule is a fascinating book, with only a few small faults. It demonstrates using better data than others have yet amassed, how almost a third of one (good) definition of the British elite attended only one of two universities (Oxford and Cambridge) and how, of those, a third attended only one of only nine elite schools; but most importantly it demonstrates who everyone else who enters the e

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Average rating: 3.77 · 2,327 ratings · 305 reviews · 65 distinct worksSimilar authors
Inequality and the 1%

3.83 avg rating — 529 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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Rule Britannia: Brexit and ...

3.71 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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Injustice: Why Social Inequ...

3.96 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions
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Population 10 Billion

3.41 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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Geography: Ideas in Profile

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The 32 Stops: The Central Line

3.47 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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All That Is Solid: The Grea...

3.54 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2014 — 9 editions
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Slowdown: The End of the Gr...

3.55 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions
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Shattered Nation: Inequalit...

3.95 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions
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So You Think You Know about...

3.51 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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“If a better politics were in the direct and obvious interest of the old, wealthy and powerful, it would already exist.”
Danny Dorling, A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier

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