The lab will explore the datasets available in the World Inequality Database, which reflects Thomas Piketty’s work on inequality.
Background reading
Watch this>> Piketty, T (2014), New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century, TED Salon Berlin, June [21 minutes] – you can also get the transcript from his talk, which may be helpful.
Alvaredo, F et al (2017), World inequality report 2018, World Inequality Lab
Other material
Avent, R (2014), The third great wave, The Economist, Oct 14th
The Economist (2014a), To those that have shall be given, The Economist, Oct 14th
The Economist (2014b), Arrested development, The Economist, Oct 14th
The Economist (2014c), Technology isn’t working, The Economist, Oct 14th
Mishraj, P (2014), The western model is broken, The Guardian, Oct 14th
Piketty, T and Zucman, G (2014), Capital is back: Wealth-income ratios in rich countries 1700-2010, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, pp1255-1310
Piketty, T and Saez, E (2013), Top incomes and the Great Recession: Recent evolutions and policy implications, IMF Economic Review, v61 No 3 pp456-478