Ben Tippet is a Lecturer in Economics and Wealth Inequality. He is a council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a committee member of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society. He is author of Split: Class Divides Uncovered (Pluto Press: 20202). He is also Principal Investigator on a British Academy/Leverhulme funded project building a new dataset on the wealthiest families in the UK from archives of The Sunday Times Rich list. He co-leads the Technology, Inequality and Development Research Group.