#  Global Inequality: New Findings from the World Inequality Report 

 



#####  A JAMES M. and CATHLEEN D. STONE PhD SCHOLARS SPECIAL EVENT  
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**Lucas Chancel**  
Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab, Paris School of Economics. **Dani Rodrik**  
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School.

 Friday, September 7, 2018  
Harvard Kennedy School

 A presentation and discussion of the **[World Inequality Report 2018](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984554)**, edited by Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman (Harvard University Press, 2018).

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**About the speakers** **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.

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He is the author of [Insoutenables inégalités. Pour une justice sociale et environnementale](http://www.lucaschancel.info/insoutenables-inegalites-livre), 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 2019. Learn more about Lucas Chancel's work  
[www.lucaschancel.info](http://www.lucaschancel.info/home)  
  
Learn more about the World Inequality Database  
[WID.world](https://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](https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/straight-talk-trade) (2017).  
  
Learn more about Dani Rodrik's work:  
[drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu](https://drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/)

   
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