Virtual Workshop 2020: Punishment and Inequality
In this presentation, Bruce Western documents the rise in mass incarceration at the end of the 20th century as well as the challenges of the re-entry process after prison.
Virtual Workshop 2020: Cross-National Inequality: Trends, Causes, and Consequences
In this presentation, Lane Kenworthy offers an overview of trends in several measures of income inequality across a set of 21 rich democracies.
Virtual Workshop 2020: Global Distribution of Income and Its Political Meaning
In this presentation, Branko Milanovic presents an overview of trends in global income inequality, both between and within countries, from the early 1800s to the present.
Virtual Workshop 2020: The Growing Relevance of Wealth and Inheritance
In this presentation, Salvatore Morelli explores the increasing importance of wealth inequality, which has been rising since the 1980s in high-income countries.
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.