Inheritocracy It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad

by Filby, Eliza

• ISBN13: 9780753561904
• ISBN10: 0753561905
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-07-17
• Publisher: WH Allen

Summary

Forget the myth of meritorcracy.
It's no longer about what you earn, or what you learn.
We are living in an inheritocracy, where the bank of mum and dad matters more than ever.

Parental support is the secret taboo of the modern world. Whether we have it or we don't, this shapes life for all of us.

Blending award-winning research, revealing interviews and candid stories, Eliza Filby digs deep into the bank of mum and dad to reveal how it affects our dating, our careers, our children, and everything else. Fresh, captivating and honest, she reveals the surprising ways the inheritocracy controls us all.

Author Biography

Dr. Eliza Filby is a historian, author and generational change expert whose work explores the shifting structures of wealth, privilege and opportunity in contemporary society. A doctoral graduate in Contemporary British History, she has taught at institutions such as the University of Warwick and King’s College London, and her writing has appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The New Statesman. She lives in Tooting, London, with her husband and two children.