Tracking the Rise in Global Economic Inequality: New Evidence from the World Inequality Report

Date: 

Friday, September 7, 2018, 2:30pm to 3:45pm

Location: 

Nye ABC (T-520)

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Lucas Chancel
Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab and WID.world, Paris School of Economics.

Dani Rodrik
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.
 

A JAMES M. STONE and CATHLEEN D. STONE PhD SCHOLARS SPECIAL EVENT

Join us for a presentation and discussion of  the World Inequality Report 2018, edited by Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman (Harvard University Press, July 2018).
 

Lucas Chancel is Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics (PSE), and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI). He teaches at Sciences Po Paris. 

He is the author of Unsustainable Inequalities, which explores the interactions between social and environmental inequalities. Currently available in French from Les Petits Matins, it will published in English by Harvard University Press in 2018-19.

Learn more about Lucas Chancel's work
www.lucaschancel.info

Learn more about the World Inequality Database
WID.world

 

Dani Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. He iis an economist whose research covers globalization, economic growth and development, and political economy.

He is  currently President-Elect of the International Economic Association. His newest book is Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy (2017).

Learn more about Dani Rodrik's work:
drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu