# 5 Big Ideas in Inequality - II ## Highlights ![Heather Boushey](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2bousheya4a.jpg?itok=P4p_lq_a) IDEA 1#### A call to action New metrics for a new economic agenda **Heather Boushey** President and CEO and Co-Founder Washington Center for Equitable Growth Sort "Adding distribution to our national conversation about our core economic metric could facilitate the diagnosis of what inequality means in our economy and our society. And it could allow us to understand not only how growth is distributed, but what kinds of policies we need to make sure that we are on a stronger path moving forward." Sort For further reading #### [Unbound](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919310) **[How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919310)** By Heather Boushey Harvard University Press, 2019. [ ![Unbound, by Heather Boushey](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/bousheybk2019_500px.jpg?itok=yr7Z1iFb) ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674919310) ![Lucas Chancel](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2chancela1a.jpg?itok=whtwb9jd) IDEA 2#### Unsustainable inequalities: Social justice and the environment **Lucas Chancel** Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab Paris School of Economics ![Lucas Chancel slide](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2chancelb1.jpg?itok=Qa13Cyu1) Sort On the need to map and track social-ecological inequalities: "We live in a data-abundant world, but we do not have the public service of inequality data. This is true when you think about income and wealth, but this is even more true when we think about who pollutes, which income groups, which geographic areas, and who is impacted by pollution." Sort #### [Unsustainable Inequalities](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984653) **[Social Justice and the Environment](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984653)** By Lucas Chancel Harvard University Press, 2020. [ ![Unsustainable Inequalities, by Lucas Chancel](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/chancelbk2020_500px.jpg?itok=num7U7PZ) ](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984653) ![Nathaniel Hendren](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2hendrena4a.jpg?itok=28UsjMWb) IDEA 3#### Investing in low-income children pays us back **Nathaniel Hendren** Professor of Economics and a Founding Co-Director of Opportunity Insights Harvard University ![Nathan Hendren slide](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2hendrenb1.jpg?itok=mWEYtabU) Sort For further reading Hendren, Nathaniel, and Ben Sprung-Keyser. 2020. “**[A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies.](https://scholar.harvard.edu/hendren/publications/unified-welfare-analysis-government-policies)**” Quarterly Journal of Economics 135 (3): 1209-1318. Interactive site: Explore the estimates at **[policyinsights.org](https://scholar.harvard.edu/hendren/publications/unified-welfare-analysis-government-policies)**. ![Anna Stansbury](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2stansburyd1a-001.jpg?itok=6DUx7cND) IDEA 4#### To tackle inequality, (re)build worker power **Anna Stansbury** PhD candidate in Economics Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration Harvard University ![Anna Stansbury slide](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2stansburyb3.jpg?itok=1fLd29uA) Sort For further reading Stansbury, Anna, and Lawrence H. Summers. **[The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for the Recent Evolution of the American Economy](https://scholar.harvard.edu/stansbury/declining-worker-power-hypothesis)**. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2020). ![Will S. Dobbie](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2dobbied1.jpg?itok=HUtDlquv) IDEA 5#### Reducing racial disparities in the pre-trial system **Will S. Dobbie** Professor of Public Policy Harvard Kennedy School ![Will Dobbie slide](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2dobbieb1.jpg?itok=5E_ID75w) ![Felix Owusu](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2owusua3a.jpg?itok=Od1u2NVp) IDEA 6 #### Reimagining public safety Thinking beyond the criminal system **Felix Owusu** PhD candidate in Public Policy Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality Harvard University ![Felix Owusu slide](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/inequality/files/wk2owusub3.jpg?itok=-qoXkCqQ) Sort For further reading **[Racial Disparities in the Massachusetts Criminal System](https://hls.harvard.edu/content/uploads/2020/11/Massachusetts-Racial-Disparity-Report-FINAL.pdf)** A report by the Criminal Justice Policy Program, Harvard Law School. Submitted to Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (Sep 2020). Authors: Elizabeth Tsai Bishop, Brook Hopkins, Chijindu Obiofuma, Felix Owusu. **[Dissecting racial disparities in the Massachusetts criminal justice system](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/black-latinx-people-overrepresented-in-massachusetts-prisons-study-says/)** Interview with Felix Owusu. Harvard Gazette (Sep 10, 2020). Embed #### THIS WEEK: 6 BIG IDEAS | NOV 02 2020 ##### 00:38 | Idea 1 - Heather Boushey 09:37 | Idea 2 - Lucas Chancel 19:38 | Idea 3 - Nathaniel Hendren 25:58 | Idea 4 - Anna Stansbury 36:00 | Idea 5 - Will Dobbie 44:41 | Idea 6 - Felix Owusu 58:10 | Q&A