The GC CUNY Stone Center is excited to announce our two newly selected postdoctoral scholars, Jasmine Simington and Chris Pulliam! They will start their two-year appointments at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social in August. Welcome, Jasmine and Chris!
Don't miss the next London Inequality Workshop! Details below!
The world may be “capitalizing,” but for many, property income remains a mirage. Our hidden gem of the week reveals that although capital income inequality has declined, ownership remains exclusive.
By @brankomilan.bsky.social & @marcoranaldi.bsky.social at @stone-lis.bsky.social
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In our next #ComplexityEconomics seminar on 4 March @oecd-ocde.bsky.social's Peter Gal will be talking about the macroeconomic productivity gains from AI across the globe. Online and in person
www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/mirac...
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Our R and Stata tools are now upgraded to support larger downloads (database grew fast and some workflows were failing). New releases are live on CRAN (R) and SSC (Stata).
Previous fails with Java-related errors should now run.
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If you think of the Earth as of an ongoing enterprise where some people receive income without working but just from ownership of Earth's land resources and produced capital, how concentrated is such income? Have many people receive nothing from the Earth, its resources and its capital?
New paper on the capitalization of the world, together with @brankomilan.bsky.social, out today! A short thread follows below 👇
Pete was a dedicated teacher, a supportive colleague, a complete sweetheart, and unrivalled as the nicest person at SSEES.
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On social tables & their methodology.
The end of a long period of decreasing global inequality?
Concept 3 is Gini between world citizens calculated from some 110+ representative national household surveys with incomes of individuals expressed in PPP dollars.
🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics
Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇
If you’re looking for some holiday reading, my new book — Clearing the Air — is on offer at £1.99 on Kindle for the next 24 hours.
Hope you enjoy!
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Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions.
👇Share this thread, share the report!
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My paper with Shlomo Yitzhaki whose work and life we shall celebrate on May 20, 2026 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Decomposing World Income Distribution: Does the World Have a Middle Class? Review of Income & Wealth, 2002.
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Podcast on my @politybooks.bsky.social book, in St Andrews splendid @rbpodcast.bsky.social series.
I discuss the links between classical liberty and P. Aghion's Schumpeterian theory, and pick from M. Wolf's and @brankomilan.bsky.social's reform programmes
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South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with the top 10% earning 70% of all pretax income.
New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993.
Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged.
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Checking off your pre-🎄to-do list?
Don’t forget to submit your paper to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)!
🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol School of Economics
🔗 www.baem.info
Send us your best work!
Great having you with us, Salvatore! Your impressive work on inheritance and wealth inequality, from the collection of new data and stylised facts to methodological innovations that improve its measurement, will, I am sure, continue to profoundly influence the inequality debate in the years to come!
Happening today!
Delighted to share that as of today I’m joining @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social as Assistant Professor!
I’ll be researching violence against youth across Latin American cities.
Grateful to the @gvagrad-ccdp.bsky.social for being a wonderful home over the past years.
More at www.elenabutti.com.
Segnalo questo articolo di Nicolò Bellanca su MicroMega, che analizza il tema della disuguaglianza composizionale e presenta alcune delle ricerche mie e di
@brankomilan.bsky.social su capitale e lavoro!
📢One week to go!
There is still some time to sign up!
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L'ultimo Rapporto Povertà di Caritas Italiana ospita anche un mio saggio, con Giacomo Gabbuti.
Parliamo delle disuguaglianze esistenti e del come e perché occuparsene. Felici di aver ospitato la presentazione all'università Roma Tre.
La registrazione completa👇
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My colleagues are organizing a workshop on
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
[Music] My new piano composition Cité is out now and available on Spotify ☺️
Cover art: Fabio Ranaldi
Sound engineering: Beatrice Balagna
Production: Elena Butti
Our speaker this week is @robertoiacono.org (NTNU), who is currently visiting our Department of Economics @unipisa.bsky.social and presents "Capital and Labor Income Mobility", joint with @marcoranaldi.bsky.social and @joelliambuehler.bsky.social . www.ec.unipi.it/eventi/rober... #econsky #seminar
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social
Does #equality promote #inclusion and #productivity, or hinder #growth❓
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
📢 Event Announcement!
Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop.
We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby!
✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12
Average tax rates in the US in 2019 as a share of wealth. Tax declines from 30% for percentile 20 to 4% for the top wealth percentile.
Two points missing in recent Wealth Tax debates:
- If we measure total taxes as a % of wealth (not income), the system is highly regressive
- The wealthiest pay 3%-4% of their wealth annually in taxes. Wealth Tax shouldn't be seen as starting from zero (see US data from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social)
