Virtual Workshop 2020: Inequality from the Child’s Perspective
In this presentation, Miles Corak describes how the advantages and disadvantages of family background are passed down from one generation to the next, perpetuating inequality.
Virtual Workshop 2020: An Unequally Distributed Depression
In this presentation, Paul Krugman analyses the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and the form of inequality that the U.S. is currently experiencing.
Virtual Workshop 2020: Inequality and the Labor Movement
In this presentation, Ruth Milkman offers an overview of inequality as it relates to the U.S. labor movement.
Virtual Workshop 2020: The Social Psychology of Inequality
In this presentation, Michael Kraus examines the social psychological underpinnings of beliefs about inequality and related policy preferences.
Virtual Workshop 2020: The Multidimensional Politics of Inequality in the United States
In this presentation, Leslie McCall critically examines common assumptions underlying how Americans think about issues of economic inequality and related policies to reduce inequality.
Panel: Reducing Inequality Now
Leading economic experts discuss the gaping disparities by race and class that have driven so many Americans into the streets, and examine the prospects for policy and institutional changes that could create a more equal society.
Panel: The Future of Global Capitalism — Branko Milanovic in Conversation
In this video, experts discuss the prospects for a fairer world now that capitalism is the predominant economic system.
Panel: The Triumph of Injustice
In this video, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman discuss their recent book and why the United States needs to increase wealth taxes to combat inequality.
Panel: Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist?
In this video, Leslie McCall and other experts discuss why capitalism is failing to generate shared prosperity and what can be done.
Leslie McCall on Inequality and Public Opinion
In this lecture, Leslie McCall presents a framework for understanding how, in the United States, public opinions about inequality, economic opportunity, and redistribution are related to one another in ways that are at odds with key tenets of American exceptionalism.