On Tuesday 21 May 2024, the World Inequality Lab invited BRANKO MILANOVIC to present and discuss his latest book Visions of Inequality: from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War, at Paris School of Economics.

PROGRAMME

17:30 – 18:00 – Presentation by Branko Milanovic

18:00 – 18:30 – Discussion with:

• MARIE-RENEE ANDREESCU, PhD Candidate in Economics at Paris School of Economics and EHESS, Eastern Europe and Russia coordinator at World Inequality Lab
• ULYSSE LOJKINE, lecturer in economics in the Université Paris-Nanterre, member of Economix and Sophiapol in Nanterre and of the Economics & Philosophy Project at the Paris School of Economics
• THOMAS PIKETTY, Professor at EHESS and at the Paris School of Economics, Co-director of the World Inequality Lab

18:30-19:00 – Q&A with the audience

 

 

BOOK SUMMARY

“How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do you expect it to change?” That is the question Branko Milanovic imagines posing to six of history’s most influential economists: François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, Vilfredo Pareto, and Simon Kuznets. Probing their works in the context of their lives, he charts the evolution of thinking about inequality, showing just how much views have varied among ages and societies. Indeed, Milanovic argues, we cannot speak of “inequality” as a general concept: any analysis of it is inextricably linked to a particular time and place.

Branko Milanovic is a Research Professor at the Graduate Center at City University of New York (CUNY), Senior Scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality at CUNY, and Visiting Professor at the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. Milanovic’s main area of work is income inequality, in individual countries and globally, including in pre-industrial societies.

 

 

Practical information

📅 Tuesday 21 May, 17:30 – 19:00 (doors open 17:00)

📍 Amphitheatre Daniel Cohen, Paris School of Economics, 48 Boulevard Jourdan, Paris 14e (in person, NO livestream).

🎙 The conference will be held in English

🖊️ To register, click here.

This event is part of the Equality Debates series organized by the World Inequality Lab. Equality Debates feature the presentation of a new social science book, followed by a discussion with the audience.

 

CONTACT

Alice Fauvel, Communications Manager: alice.fauvel@psemail.eu

James K. Boyce, co-winner of the 2024 Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA), will give a lecture at Sciences Po on April 5, 2024.

The GiRA aims to recognize researchers from all disciplines who have made a significant contribution to the understanding of global inequalities.

30 years after the publication of “Inequality as a cause of environmental degradation“, the first GiRA is awarded to James K  Boyce for his major contribution to structuring the field of environmental political economy.

The lecture will be introduced by Lucas Chancel and Éloi Laurent.

This conference is organized as part of the Social-ecological transitions (SET) initiative supported the OFCE, CEE  and CSO, which aims to encourage collaboration between researchers working at the frontier of social and environmental issues, across disciplinary and institutional boundaries.

 

 

 

📅 Friday 5 April 2024, 19:15 pm (CET)

📍 Amphithéâtre Claude Erignac, Sciences Po, 13 rue de l’Université, 75007, Paris.

✍️ Admission is free, subject to availability. External audience: mandatory registration here.

Comment les inégalités ont-elles évolué au Canada depuis les années 1980 ? Y a-t-il des disparités entre le Québec et les autres Provinces ? Entre impôt progressif et prestations sociales, quelles sont les politiques fiscales et sociales les plus efficaces pour redresser les inégalités avant et après impôts ?

Mardi 12 décembre 2023, le Laboratoire sur les Inégalités Mondiales (World Inequality Lab, WIL) et la Chaire de recherche en Fiscalité et Finances Publiques (CFFP, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec) ont publié une nouvelle étude sur les inégalités au Canada depuis 1980. Le WIL et la CFFP ont présenté la méthode et les résultats lors d’une conférence de lancement en ligne.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpeEQUZf5tM

L’objectif de la conférence est de présenter l’évolution des inégalités de revenus au Canada et au Québec depuis 1980 selon l’approche des comptes nationaux distribués (approche « DINA » en anglais), qui permet deux apports importants :

1) analyser les inégalités de revenus après impôt (et non pas seulement avant impôt), et ;

2) appliquer l’approche DINA au Canada de même qu’aux provinces canadiennes.

Le webinaire sera modéré par Luc Godbout, titulaire la CFFP, en présence de Thomas Piketty, co-directeur du WIL, et des auteur.e.s de l’étude :

• Silas Xuereb, WIL, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Matthew Fisher-Post, WIL
• François Delorme, WIL, Research Center in Taxation and Public Finance, Université de Sherbrooke
• Camille Lajoie, London School of Economics

 

 

Déroulé 

• Introduction et présentation des intervenant.e.s, par Luc Godbout
• Introduction et perspectives sur la recherche sur les inégalités, par Thomas Piketty
• Présentation de la méthodologie DINA appliquée au Canada, par Silas Xuereb et Matthew Fisher-Post
• Présentation des résultats, par François Delorme et Camille Lajoie
• Questions & réponses

 

Informations pratiques

📅 Mardi 12 décembre 2023, 11h30-13h (GMT-5 :00), 17h30-19h (GMT+1:00)

📍 Zoom, pour vous inscrire, cliquez ici.

🎙️L’événement se tiendra en ligne et principalement en français.

 

Contact

Alice Fauvel, responsable de la communication, World Inequality Lab : alice.fauvel[at]psemail.eu

Suzie St-Cerny, chercheure, CFFP Suzie.St-Cerny[at]USherbrooke.ca

 

Merci aux partenaires de diffusion de la conférence, le Groupe de recherche en économie et développement international (GRÉDI, Université de Sherbrooke) et le Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (CIRANO).

To mark the publication of the graphic novel Hé Patron, the World Inequality Lab organized a round-table discussion at the Paris School of Economics on Thursday November 9, 2023 at 7pm.

The event was organized in partnership with Alternatives Economiques and Editions du Seuil, and part of the Equality Debates series organized by the World Inequality Lab.

 

Summary

Who makes the decisions in the corporate world? Corporations – and more specifically their managers and shareholders – make decisions that affect us at every moment of our lives… without asking our opinion. This is the conclusion reached by a group of researchers from the world’s leading universities in Hé Patron – Pour une révolution dans l’entreprise. The goal of this collective work is to make democracy a reality in the workplace.

 

The book is written by Isabelle Ferreras, accompanied by ten academics, a writer and an illustrator.

 

The event will bring together:

• Isabelle Ferreras, professor at the University of Leuven
• David ‘Cartoon Dave’ Hackett, cartoonist and illustrator
• Miranda Richmond Mouillot, author, artist and translator with a degree in French history and literature from Harvard University.

• François Ruffin, elected member and director of the documentary ‘Merci Patron !’

Moderated by co-organizers:

• Thomas Piketty, co-director of World Inequality Lab
• Christian Chavagneux, deputy editor-in-chief of Alternatives Economiques

>>TO REGISTER, CLICK HERE <<<

 

Practical information

📅 Thursday, November 9, 2023, 7pm-8:30pm (CET)

18h45 Doors open

📍 Paris School of Economics (amphithéâtre Daniel Cohen), 48 Boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris

🎙️The event will be held in French and in person.

>>> TO REGISTER, CLICK HERE <<<

Contact

Alice Fauvel, communications manager: alice.fauvel@psemail.eu

 

On Thursday 14 March and Friday 15 March 2024, a conference brought together researchers, policymakers and civil society from across Europe and beyond, to discuss inequality and the global tax architecture.

Despite a decade of global tax reform,  the current tax rules fail to address inequality both within and between countries. In late 2022, the member states of the United Nations (UN) member states unanimously voted to launch intergovernmental discussions on proposals for a new international framework for tax cooperation under the auspices of the UN.

This two-day conference explored the potential of a UN Tax Convention to:

• supporting meaningful progress against tax abuse,
• reducing inequalities within and between countries, and
• strengthening the ability of states to respond to the climate crisis.

 

Watch the replay of the videos on our YouTube channel:

•  Keynote by Gabriel Zucman, Director EU Tax Observatory
• Keynote Tove Maria Ryding, Policy and Advocacy Manager at EURODAD, Dereje Alemayehu, Executive Coordinator at Global Alliance for Tax Justice
• Panel : Inequality in power dynamics: impact on human rights, and inclusive governance’ and Q&A
• Panel: ‘Corporate tax abuse: understanding its socioeconomic impact, and assessing potential solutions’ and Q&A
• Panel : ‘Taxing wealth: tools to target concentrated ownership and wealth inequality’ and Q&A and closing remark by Lucas Chancel
• Panel: ‘Climate Finance and Tax Justice: Emissions inequalities, Carbon Taxation, and Global Solutions’
• Panel: ‘In pursuit of a multilateral UN treaty that delivers on our collective interests’
•  High-level ministerial panel with Bjørg Sandkjær, State Secretary, Norway, María Fernanda Valdés, Deputy Minister of Finance of Colombia, Eva Joly, Commissioner, ICRICT, moderated by Jayati Gosh

 

On Monday 6 November 2023, the World Inequality Lab invited DARON ACEMOGLU, co-author of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.

 

 

Book summary

Published in May 2023, in a moment of peak Artificial Intelligence (AI), Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson debunk modern techno-optimism. The book traverses a millennium of disruptive technologies, from medieval agriculture and ship design all the way up to generative AI, to ask how the path of technology is determined and who influences its trajectory. They argue that we can redirect the path of innovation to create shared prosperity rather than exclusively for private profit.

 

DARON ACEMOGLU is Institute Professor of Economics at MIT. For the last twenty-five years, he has been researching the historical origins of prosperity, poverty, and the effects of new technologies on economic growth, employment, and inequality.

 

 

Practical information

📅 Monday 6 November 2023, 11:00 – 12:00 (EDT) 17:00 – 18:00pm (CET), presentation of the book and Q&A

📍 Zoom Webinar, to register, click here.

🎙The conference will be held in English.

 

Contact

Alice Fauvel, Communications Manager: alice.fauvel@psemail.eu

To mark the publication of Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty’s new book Une Histoire du Conflit Politique – Elections et Inégalités Sociales en France (1789-2022), the World Inequality Lab organized a conference on Monday 18 September 2023 at the Paris School of Economics, in partnership with PSE and Editions du Seuil.

 

The presentation of the book “The Case for a Job Guarantee“, by Pavlina Tcherneva, will take place on Tuesday May 10th, 6-7:30 pm (CET). The debate will be held in English and on Zoom.

Continue reading “The Case for a Job Guarantee”

The presentation of the book “Les femmes, les jeunes et les enfants d’abord. Investissement social et économie de la qualité“, by Clément Carbonnier and Bruno Palier, will take place on Tuesday May 31st, 6-7:30 pm (CET). The debate will be held in French, at the Paris School of Economics (R2.01).

Summary of “Les femmes, les jeunes et les enfants d’abord. Investissement social et économie de la qualité”

 

Notre système de protection sociale, pensé au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ne sait pas protéger les personnes les plus vulnérables. Pauvreté des enfants, précarité des jeunes et des moins qualifiés, difficultés des familles monoparentales : tels sont quelques-uns des nouveaux défis à relever. Répondre aux enjeux sociaux actuels ne peut plus être affaire de simples ajustements mais impose une stratégie globale.

En s’appuyant sur l’évaluation des réformes passées, en France et à l’étranger, et sur une lecture solide des indicateurs économiques, Clément Carbonnier et Bruno Palier proposent une stratégie de la qualité pour toutes et tous. Ce nouveau contrat social repose sur des politiques publiques d’investis­sement social inclusives et une montée en qualité généralisée du système productif. Il permettra de sortir de l’économie du low-cost, et de garantir la qualité de la vie et des emplois de toutes et tous au nom d’une plus grande justice sociale.

>> Read the table of content (in French)

 

About the authors

• Clément Carbonnier is a professor of economics at Paris 8 University.
• Bruno Palier is a CNRS Research Director at Sciences Po’s Center for European Studies

 

EVENT DETAILS

📚 Clément Carbonnier and Bruno Palier, “Les femmes, les jeunes et les enfants d’abord. Investissement social et économie de la qualité“, Presses universitaires de France, 2022.

📅 Tuesday May 31st – 6-7:30 pm (CET)

📍 Paris School of Economics (R2.01). We strongly encourage you to attend the debate in person. Yet, if this is not possible, you can join the debate on Zoom by registering on this form.

🎙 The debate will be held in French.

The presentation of the book “La Banque Providence. Démocratiser les banques centrales et la monnaie“, by Eric Monnet, will take place on Wednesday March 23rd, 6-7:30 pm (CET). The debate, in French, will be held at the Paris School of Economics (R2.21), and is organized in partnership with Seuil.

Continue reading “La Banque-providence”