Inequality has dominated economic and political debate following the publication of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. To what extent has social mobility declined in the advanced economies? Have we really returned to the hierarchical society of the 1930s? Why does social mobility matter? And can anything be done to revive it? Speakers: Chair: Sarah Smith (University of Bristol), Jo Blanden (University of Surrey), François Bourguignon (Paris School of Economics), Paul Johnson (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Julian Le Grand (LSE)