The Great Escape—Health, Wealth, and Inequality
In this video, Angus Deaton traces the dramatic increase in human prosperity over the past 250 years as well as the widening gap between the poor and sick, and the rich and well.
Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession
C. Lackner and B. Milanovic. The World Bank Economic Review. vol. 30, no. 2. pp. 203-232. 2015.
Inequality and Climate Change: Joseph Stiglitz and Nicholas Stern in Conversation
Watch two of the world’s leading experts on economics and the environment discuss the intersection of climate change and inequality.
Jeff Madrick in Conversation with Paul Krugman
Watch Jeff Madrick discuss themes in his recent book with Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
Explaining Regional Autonomy Differences in Decentralized Countries
B. Milanovic and N. Sambanis. Comparative Political Studies. vol. 47, no. 13. pp. 1830-1855. 2014.
High and Rising Inequality: Causes and Consequences
Janet Gornick's keynote address at the UN Second Committee General Debate.
Panel: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Watch French economist Thomas Piketty participate in a panel discussing his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century at the Graduate Center.
Folio: Interview with Janet Gornick
In an interview with CUNY’s Folio, Janet Gornick discusses elements of her 2012 commencement speech and why poverty and inequality are growing more important to the current debate.
Lakner-Milanovic World Panel Income Distribution
This database contains a panel of country-deciles covering the twenty year period 1988-2008, expressed in common currency and prices (2005 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) dollars derived from the 2005 International Comparison Project). B. Milanovic and C. Lakner. 2013.
Panel: Income Inequality LIS Book Launch
In this video, panelists and editors discuss "Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries" at its launch.