Inheritocracy
It's time to talk about the Bank of Mum and Dad.
We grew up believing that hard work was the route to success. Get an education, find a good job, buy a home and build a life.
But what happens when family wealth matters more than what you earn?
Inheritocracy explores how the Bank of Mum and Dad is reshaping adulthood, relationships, opportunity and the great divide between those who have access to family wealth and those who don't.
Praise for Inheritocracy
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
"Eliza Filby’s nuanced, witty and evidence-driven book explains how we arrived where we are as a country... this book offers a compelling analysis from start to finish."
Nell Frizzell, author of Holding the Baby
"Inheritocracy is that most valuable thing: a subtle, thorough, insightful look at a subject we all tend to shy away from. Filby is by turns funny, informative and familiar; we're lucky to have her."
David Willetts, author of The Pinch
“This is a very welcome book on one of the biggest social changes in Britain today. Eliza Filby shows with vivid personal examples how this is transforming the relationship between successive generations.”
Rowan Pelling, co-editor of Perspective
“Inheritocracy is both funny and important – it’s like a mash up between Dolly Alderton and The Economist. Filby beautifully unpicks the major obstacles of growing up in the 21st century. It deserves to be read by every young person ...and their parents.”
Generation Shift
How generational evolution is changing the way we think, work and live.
An exploration of how the pandemic accelerated changes already underway in our workplaces, wallets and everyday lives.
Bringing together essays written between 2020 and 2023, Generation Shift captures a period when the old assumptions about work, generations and society were being challenged, and a new world was beginning to emerge.