Poor Laborers and Rich Capitalists? On the Evolution of Income Composition Inequality in Italy 1989–2016
R. Iacono and M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 13. 2020.
Analysis: The Real Pandemic Danger Is Social Collapse — As the Global Economy Comes Apart, Societies May, Too
In Foreign Affairs, Branko Milanovic says advanced societies must not allow economics, particularly the fortunes of financial markets, to blind them to the fact that the most important role economic policy can play now is to keep social bonds strong under this extraordinary pressure.
Inequality as Entitlements Over Labor
P. Segal. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 12. 2020.
Redistribution and the Quality of Government: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
B. Petrova. British Journal of Political Science. vol. 51, no. 1. pp. 374–393. 2020.
Income Composition Inequality
M. Ranaldi. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 07. 2020.
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
P. Krugman. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2020.
Analysis: Which Americans Shouldn’t Get Government Aid?
In his New York Times newsletter, Paul Krugman discusses the political debate over who should and who shouldn’t receive government aid.
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.
Extreme Wealth Inequality Is Pernicious
In this interview, Salvatore Morelli explains why wealth inequality is in some ways a more dangerous threat than income inequality.
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
B. Milanovic. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. 2019.