• Ch.1.1 - Outline (0:00)
• Ch.1.2 - Functional Distribution of Income (7:34) 
• Ch.1.3 - Inequality Among the 99%  (17:34)
• Ch.1.4 - Inequality Among Nations (22:32)
• Ch.1.5 - Inequality Due to Parentage (27:57)
• Ch.1.6 - Categorical Inequalities (33:07)
• Ch.1.7 - Summary (35:50)

• Arjun Jayadev information

• Azim Premji University
• INET profile

• Introduction

• Snakes & Ladders at ToyTheater
• Ecclesiastes 9:11
• Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3: 218-224

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• Classical classes

• David Ricardo (HET)
• Classical School (HET)
• "Preface" to D. Ricardo, 1817, Principles of Political Economy and Taxation [mrx]
• Karl Marx (HET)
• "Marxian Class Analysis and Economics", by Rick Wolff, Dollars & Sense.
•  "Marx's Concept of Class", at MR Online

• Bowley's Law (Labor share)

• Arthur Bowley (HET)
• "Bowley's Law: The diffusion of an empirical supposition into economic theory" by Hagen M. Kramer, 2011, Cahiers d'economique politique, [cairn]
• John Maynard Keynes

• Growth & Distribution

• Nicholas Kaldor (HET)
• Simon Kuznets (HET)
• Robert Solow (HET)
• "Economic Growth and Income Inequality" by Simon Kuznets, 1955, AER. [pdf, pdf]
• "Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function" by Robert M. Solow, 1957, REStat, [jstor, pdf]
• "Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth" by Nicholas Kaldor, 1961, in F.A. Lutz & D.C. Hague, editors, Theory of Capital [pdf]
• "Kuznets Curve" at Thought Co.

• Declining labor share in G20 countries

• Brent Niemann (homepage)
• Loukas Karabarbounis (page at Minnesota)
• "The Global Decline of the Labor Share" by Brent Niemann and Loukas Karabounis, 2013 [NBER wp, pub.2013, QJE, pdf]
• "Labor Income Shares" at OECD ilibrary
• "The Labour Share in G20 Countries", by ILO/OECD, 2015 [pdf]
• "The Declining Labor Share of Income" by Franciso Rodriguez and Arjun Jayadev, 2010, UNDP HDR
• "The Declining Labor Share of Income" by Franciso Rodriguez and Arjun Jayadev, 2013, J of Globalization and Development [DeGr]

• Superstars

• "How Superstars’ Pay Stifles Everyone Else", by Eduardo Porter, 2010, NY Times.
• "The Economics of Superstars" by Sherwin Rose, 1981, AER (Dec), p.845, [jstor]

• Piketty's r > g.

• Thomas Piketty (Paris School homepage, INET profile)
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, 2013 [Amazon]
• "A Discussion of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century: By How Much Is r Greater than g?" Maxim L. Pinkovskiy, 2015, Liberty Street Economics, FRBNY
• SOI Tax Statistics at IRS
• "The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870-2015" by Òscar Jordà, Katharina Knoll, Dmitry Kuvshinov, Moritz Schularick and Alan M. Taylor, 2019, [NBER wp, pub. 2019, QJE]
• Moritz Schularick (INET profile, NBER profile)
• Alan Taylor (INET profile, UC Davis page)

• Further reading on declining labor share

• "Getting Income Shares Right" by Douglas Gollin, 2002, JPE [jstor]
• "Has Globalization Eroded Labor’s Share? Some Cross-Country Evidence" by Ann Harrison, 2005 [MPRA pdf]
• "Capital account openness and the labour share of income" by Arjun Jayadev, 2007, Cambridge JE (Jan) [oup]
• "Effects of Globalization on Labor's Share in National Income" by Anastasia Guscina, 2007 [IMF wp, SSRN]
• "The Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global Information Age: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan" by Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, and Benjamin C. Ellis, 2011, [Indiana Univ Repository, ResGate, SSRN, ]
• Wage Led Growth: An equitable strategy for economic recovery, edited by Marc Lavoie and Engelbert Stockhammer, 2013 [ILO pdf]
• Why have Wage Shares Fallen? A panel analysis of the determinants of functional income distribution by Englebert Stockhammer, 2013 [ILO pdf]
• "Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capital Share: Accumulation or scarcity?" by Matthew Rognlie, 2015, Brookings [Brookings pdf]
• "The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Labor Share Decline", Matthias Kehrig and Nicolas Vincent, 2018 [NBER, Semantic]
• "Why Is Labor Receiving a Smaller Share of Global Income? Theory and Empirical Evidence" by Mai Chi Dao, Mitali Das, Zsoka Koczan, Weicheng Lian, 2017 IMF Working Paper
• "A new look at the declining labor share of income in the United States" by James Manyika et al, 2018, McKinsey Global Institute

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• Earnings inequality

• "Income inequality and the labour market in Britain and the US" by Richard Blundell, Robert Joyce, Agnes Norris Keiller and James P. Ziliak, 2018, JPubE (Jun), p.48 [SciDir]
• "Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the 'other 99 percent'" by David Autor, 2014, Science (May 23) [science]
• Janet Gornick
• Sir Angus Deaton,
• "The Rise and Consequences of Inequality in the United States" by Alan B. Krueger, Jan 12, 2012
• "Globalization and Inequality: Paul Krugman, Janet Gornick, and Branko Milanovic" at Graduate Center, NYC [video]

• Inequality and unionization

• "Deregulation and the Labor Market" by James Peoples, 1998, J Econ Perspectives, p.111
• "Deregulation and Labour Law in the United States", by Samuel M. Kaynard, 1988, Hosftra Lab & Emp Law J.
• "The Impact of Worker Bargaining Power on the Organization of Global Firms" by Juan Carluccio and Maria Bas, 2013
• "Outsourcing and union power" by Charles R. Perry, 1997, J of Labor Research (Dec), p.521 [Springer]
• "Outsourced university workers seek collective bargaining rights" by Jane Croft, Financial Times, (Feb 26, 2019)

• Inequality and technology

•  "Labour share developments over the past two decades: the role of technological progress, globalisation and “winner-takes-most” dynamics", by Cyrille Schwellnus, Mathilde Pak, Pierre-Alain Pionnier and Elena Crivellaro, 2018 (Sep).
• "The Vanishing Middle: Job Polarization and Workers’ Response to the Decline in Middle-Skill Job" by Didem Tüzemen and Jonathan Willis, 2013, FRB Kansas City Econ Review.
• "The Rise of the Machines: How Computers Have Changed Work" by David Dorn, 2015 UBS Center Paper

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• Inequality in Antiquity & Middle Ages

• Escape from Rome by Walter Scheidel, 2019 [Princeton UP]
• "Poverty in Pauline Studies: Beyond the So-called New Consensus", by Steven J. Friesen 2004, J for the Study of New Testament [Genius, Sage]
• "The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire" by Walter Scheidel and Steven J. Friesen, 2009, J of Roman Studies [jstor]
• "An Estimate of Average Income and Inequality in Byzantium Around Year 1000" by Branko Milanovic, 2006, Rev of Income and Wealth, p.449 [CUNY, SSRN]
• "The top rich in Europe in the long run of history (1300 to present day)" by Guido Alfani, 2017, Vox

• The Great Divergence

• The Capitalist Revolution at CORE-Economics
• Angus Maddison
• Maddison Historical Statistics at Univ of Groningen, Netherlands
• "Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence", by Geoffrey Jones, 2017, HBS.
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber (HET), 1904-05 [av] [pdf] [txt]
• The Civilizing Process by Norbert Elias, 1939 [trans. 1978-82] [Amazon]
• The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill, 1964 [Chicago UP]
• The European Miracle by Eric Jones, 1981 [Amazon] 
• The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy, 1987 [Amazon] 
• The Lever of Riches: Technological creativity and economic progress by Joel Mokyr, 1992 [Oxford UP]
• The Clash of Civilizations by Simon P. Huntington, 1996 [Amazon]
• Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond, 1997 [Amazon]
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes, 1998 [Amazon]
• The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy by Kenneth Pomeranz, 2000 [Princeton UP]
• The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation by John M. Hobson, 2004 [Amazon] 
• The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an age of commerce, by Deirdre McCloskey, 2006 [Chicago UP]
• A Farewell to Alms: A brief economic history of the world by Gregory Clark, 2007 [Princeton UP].
• The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert C. Allen, 2009 [Cambridge UP]
• Why the West Rules - For Now by Ian Morris, 2010 [Amazon]
• Before and Beyond Divergence: the politics of economic change in China and Europe, by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal & R. Bin Wong, 2011 [Harvard UP]
• Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson, 2012 [Amazon]
• Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, 2013 [Amazon]
• Great Divergence and Great Convergence by Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev, 2016 [Springer] 

• Human Development Index

• Human Development Index at UNDP
• "Technical notes: Calculating the human development indices—graphical presentation", UNDP Human Development Report, 2016

• Migration & Borders

• Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life by Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber, 2007 [Amazon]
• UNDP Human Development Report, 2009, [maps on p.10 & p.11] [UNDP pdf]
• "Photo of Drowned Migrants Captures Pathos of Those Who Risk It All", by Azam Ahmed and Kirk Semple, NY Times (June 25, 2019) [sensitive material]
• Let their People Come by Lant Pritchatt, 2006 [pdf]
• Glen Weyl

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• Geography of distribution

• Raj Chetty
• Opportunity Atlas

• Inter-generational mobility

• "Fortunate Sons: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States Using Social Security Earnings Data", by Bhaskhar Mazumder, 2005, REStat, p.235 [jstor]

• Great Gatsby Curve

• "Income Inequality, Equality of Opportunity, and Intergenerational Mobility" by Miles Corak, 2013, J of Econ Perspectives, p.79 [AEA pdf]
• "The Great Gatsby Curve Explained", Bloomberg Infographic
• "The Great Utility of the Great Gatsby Curve" by Alan B. Krueger, Brookings (May 19, 2015),

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• India's Caste System

• "India's Caste System" by Archana Chaudhary, Bloomberg (Oct 25, 2019)
•  "What is India's Caste System?", BBC News (June 19, 2019)
• "Caste System and Its Relation to Social and Economic Life", by M.D, Altekar, 1929, AAPSS, p.183 [jstor]
• "Graded Caste Inequality and Poverty: Evidence on Role of Economic Discrimination" by Sukhadeo Thorat and S. Madheswaran, 2018, J of Social Inclusion Studies [Sage]
• "Book review: Dipankar Gupta's 'Interrogating Caste'" by Gopa Sabharwal, India Today (July 24, 2000)
• "Exclusive Inequalities: Merit, Caste and Discrimination in Indian Higher Education Today" by Satish Deshpande, 2006, Economic and Political Weekly (June 17-26), p.2438 [jstor]
• Ideas for India by Ashwini Deshpande
• "Caste and the Indian Economy", by Kaivan Munshi, 2019, J of Econ Literature, (Dec), p.781 [AEA pdf]

• Gender and Unpaid Work

• "Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work" by Craig Lambert, NY Times (Oct 29, 2011)
• "How Society Pays When Women’s Work Is Unpaid" by Claire Cain Miller, NY Times (Feb 22, 2016)
• "Counting on Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts" by Randy Albelda, Mignon Duffy and Nancy Folbre, 2009, UMass-Boston [pdf].
• "For Love or Money -- Or Both?", by Nancy Folbre and Julie Nelson, 2000, J of Econ Perspectives (Aut), p.123 [UMB, jstor]
• Nancy Folbre (Homepage, American Univ,  INET Profile)
• Julie Nelson (Homepage, UMass-Boston, INET Profile)
   

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• Ch.2.1 - What we mean when we speak about Inequality (start)
• Ch.2.2 - Some Pictures of Inequality (3:00)
• Ch.2.3 - Partial Measures (6.40)
• Ch.2.4 - Axiomatic Approach (10:46)
• Ch.2.5 - Common Global Measures (20:14)
• Ch.2.6 - Lorenz Curves (23:16)

• Martin Reid & Seymour M. Miller

• "Standards of Income Redistribution" by Martin Rein and S.M. Miller, 1974, Challenge, v.17 (3), p.20-26. [jstor]
• Reid obituary at MIT
• Miller profile at FairEconomy

• (1) One-Hundred-Percentism

• "Equal Pay for Equal Work" at Wikipedia

• (2) Social Minimum or the floor of protection

• ILO Social Protection Floor

• (3) Equalization of lifetime income profiles

• "Inadequate Retirement Savings for Workers Nearing Retirement" by Theresa Ghilarducci,
• Rich Johnson

• (4) Stratum Mobility

• "Inequalities and Stratification" at ASA

• (5) Economic inclusion

• "What is Economic Inclusion?" at FDIC.

• (6) Income Shares

• "The Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global Information Age: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan" by Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, and Benjamin C. Ellis, 2011, [Indiana Univ Repository, ResGate, SSRN, ]
• "The Labour Share in G20 Countries", by ILO/OECD, 2015 [pdf]

• (7) Lowering the Ceiling

• "Reversing Inequality: Unleashing the Transformative Potential of an Equitable Economy" by Chuck Collins, 2017, NextSystem

• (8) Avoidance of income and wealth crystallization

• "Bernie Sanders: Concentrated Wealth is Concentrated Power" (Dec 3, 2018), at RNN
•  "Sanders calls Inequality a 'Moral and Economic' Outrage", at NY Times

• (9) International yardsticks

• "Yardsticks: how to compare the scale of different social problems", by Benjamin Todd, 2014, 80k Hours

• Reducing income inequality

• "Six policies to reduce economic inequality" by john a. powell
• "Ch. 5 - Reducing income inequality while boosting Economic growth: Can it be done?" by OECD, Economic Policy Reforms: going for growth, 2012 [oecd, pdf]
• "How can tax reduce income inequality" by Alan Carter and Stephen Matthews, OECD
• "Reducing income inequality in Europe" by Anthony B. Atkinson, 2013, J of European Labor Studies (Dec) [pdf],
• "Letter to Elizabeth Warren on Wealth Tax" by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez (Jan 18, 2019)
• "Letter on Sanders' Wealth Tax" by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez (Sep 22, 2019)
• "Bernie Sanders Proposes a Wealth Tax: ‘I Don’t Think That Billionaires Should Exist’" at NY Times (Sep 24, 2019)

• Further reading

• Measuring Inequality by Frank A. Cowell, 2009 [lse pdf]
• "Does Corruption Affect Income Inequality and Poverty?" by Sanjeev Gupta, Hamid Davoodi and Rosa Alonso-Terme, 1998, IMF working paper
• "Poverty, Inequality, and Conflict" by S.M. Miller, M. Rein,  P. Roby,  & G.M. Gross, 1967, AAPSS, 373(1), 16–52. [sage, jstor] 
• The Triumph of Injustice: How the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay, by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, 2019 [b&n , amazon]
• Inequality: What Can Be Done? by Anthony B. Atkinson, 2015 [jstor]
• CORE-Economics blog: "Escaping Imaginary Worlds" by Tim Phillips, 2017. 
• "Measuring Inequality in Income and Wealth", World Bank Human Development Report [pdf]
• "America's Economic Pie: Talking to Americans about wealth inequality" at CBS This Morning (Jan 31, 2020).

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• Palma Index

• "What is the Palma Ratio?" by Geoff Riley, at tutor2u.net [video]
• "Palma Index", World Bank, Global Monitoring Report, 2014-15,

• Share of Bottom 40%

• "Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries" by UN Sustainable Development, at UN.org.

• Mean-Median Ratio

• "What the difference between mean and median tells us about income inequality" by Lisa Charlotte Rost at Chartable, Jan 11, 2018

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• (a) Pigou-Dalton Transfer Principle

• Arthur C. Pigou (HET)
• Hugh Dalton (HET)
• "Pigou-Dalton Principle" at Wikipedia
• "Inequality and Axioms for its Measurement", by L.G. Bellu and Paolo Liberati, FAO, EasyPol Mod 54, [pdf]

• (b) Scale Invariance

• "Scale Invariance" at Statistics How To
• "Scale Invariance" at Wikipedia, [video]

• (c) Translation Invariance

• (d) Population Variance

• (e) Anonymity

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• Gini Coefficient

• Measuring Inequality by Frank A. Cowell, 2009 [lse pdf]
• Corrado Gini (HET)
• "Gini Coefficient" at Wolfram MathWorld
• "The Gini Coefficient", by Geoff Riley, at tutor2u.net [video]
• "Understanding the Gini Coefficient" by StatisticsSingapore [video]
• "Rebottling the Gini: why this headline measure of inequality misses everything that matters" by Angus Deaton and Anne Case, 2020, Prospect Magazine (Jan 27, 2020)

• Atkinson family of measures

• Tony Atkinson's website.
• "On the Measurement of Inequality" by Anthony B. Atkinson, 1970, Journal of Economic Theory (Sep), p.244-63 [psu, SciDir].

• Generalized Entropy family of measures

• "Technical Note: Inequality measures and their decompositions ", World Bank, [pdf]
• "Income inequality measures", by Fernando G. De Maio, 2007, J of Epid Community health (Oct), p.849

•  Theil Index

• Henri Theil (HET)
• "Theil Index" at US Census
• "The Young Person’s Guide to the Theil Index" by Pedro Conceição and Pedro Ferreira, 2000, UTIP [pdf]
• "Describing Income Inequality: Theil Index and Entropy Class Indexes" by L.G. Bellu and Paolo Liberati, FAO, EasyPol Mod 51 [pdf],

• "Bernie Sanders view"

• "Bernie Sanders on Economic Inequality" at FeeltheBern.

•  Coefficient of Variation

• "How to find the Coefficient of Variation" at Statistics How To
• "Policy Impacts on Inequality: Simple inequality measures" by L.G. Bellu and Paolo Liberati, FAO,  EasyPol Mod 80  [pdf]
• Inequality by Larry Temkin, 1993, p.124

•  Relative Mean Deviation

• "How to find a Relative Average Variation" at Sciencing
• "Policy Impacts on Inequality: Simple inequality measures" by L.G. Bellu and Paolo Liberati, FAO,  EasyPol Mod 80  [pdf]
• Inequality by Larry Temkin, 1993, p.122.

•  Data

• WIDER: World Income Inequality Database (WIID) at UN University.
• University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)

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•  Lorenz Curves

• Max Lorenz (HET)
• "Lorenz Curve" and Wolfram's MathWorld
• "The Lorenz Curve"  by Geoff Riley, at tutor2u.net [video]
• "Understanding the Gini Coefficient" by StatisticsSingapore [video]
• "Gini Coefficient and Lorenz Curve" at Khan Academy [video]

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• Ch.3.1 - Historical Global Inequality (start)
• Ch.3.2 - Globalization & Migration ( 13:10)
• Ch.3.3 - Convergence Between Countries: current and historical (INET video: 19:45)

• Branko Milanovic information

• globalinequality blog
• Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
• Graduate Center, CUNY
• INET profile

• Anthropology of Inequality

• Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe site, papers on early human inequality)
• Christopher Boehm (site, Hierarchy in the Forest preview)

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• Inequality and Migration data sources

• All the Ginis Dataset at World Bank
• Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP)
• Migration Data Project
• UN Population Divison - International Migration

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• GDP per Capita

• GDP per capita data at World Bank  

• International Comparison (PPPs)

• "How to Calculate and use Purchasing Power Parity - PPP" at The Balance
•  Purchasing Power Parities data at OECD.
• "Top 20 Country GDP, 1800-2040" by Wawamu Stats [video]
• International Comparison Program (ICP) at World Bank
• "Purchasing Power Parity explained" [video]

• Household Surveys (HS)

• Historical Income Tables: Households at US Census
• Household Disposable Income at OECD

• 1% statistic

• "Be careful with that viral statistic about the top 1% owning half the world’s wealth" by Ezra Klein, 2015, Vox

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• Ch.4.1 - Is the World Getting Better? (0:00)
• Ch.4.2 -The Great Reshuffling, Part 1 (6:00) 
• Ch.4.3 - The Great Reshuffling between Countries (18:01)
   

• Milanovic on inequality and capitalism

• The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality, by Branko Milanovic, 2012 [Basic, Amazon, B&N]
• Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization by Branko Milanovic, 2016 [Harvard UP, Amazon, B&N]
• Capitalism Alone: The future of the system that rules the world, by Branko Milanovic, 2019 [Harvard UP, Amazon, B&N]
• "A scholar of inequality ponders the future of capitalism", The Economist (Nov 2, 2019)
• "Review of Capitalism Alone", by Robert Iacono, 2019, LSE Rev of Books. 
• "Review of Capitalism Alone" by Duncan Green, 2019, From Poverty to Power, Oxfam.

• Absolute Theil

• "Theil Index" at US Census
•  "Egalitarianism: Income and Wealth" at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• China and India

• "Asia's Wealth Gap Is Among The Largest In The World: What Can Leaders Do To Fix It?" by Luke Kelly, Forbes (Feb 2, 2018)
• Demystifying Rising Inequality in Asia by Bihong Huang, Peter J. Morgan and Naoyuki Yoshino, 2019 [Brookings]

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• Elephant Curve

• "Global Income Distribution: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession" by Christoph Lakner and Branko Milanovic, 2015, World Bank Economic Review, Aug 12, 2015 [CUNY pdf; WBER]
• "Description of the Lakner-Milanovic (2013) World Panel Income Distribution (LM-WPID) database", [World Bank pdf]
• "The Elephant Curve of Global Inequality and Growth", Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, Dec 2017 [pdf] 
• "The global top 1 percent earned twice as much as the bottom 50 percent in recent years" by Dylan Matthews, Vox (Feb 2, 218)
• "The Elephant Curve", AEA Highlights, Apr 15, 2019

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• Ch. 5.1 - Borders (0:00)
• Ch.5.2 -  Universalism (9:38) 
• Ch. 5.3 - Taxation (13:52) 
• Ch.5.4 - Macroeconomics (18:57),  
• Ch. 5.5 - Transmission of Advantages (21:09)
• Ch. 5.6 - Gender Inequality (27:25)

• Philosophers of Inequality                                         

• John Rawls (HET)
• Amartya Sen
• Robert Nozick
• Philip Pettit
• Elizabeth Anderson
• Nancy Frasier
• Jon Elster
• Philippe Van Parijs
• Thomas Pogge
• Erik Olin Wright
• Michael Sandel
• Thomas M. Scanlon
• Thomas Kuhn

• Further reading on Inequality

• Equality of What?, by Amartya Sen, 1979 [pdf]
• "From Income Inequality to Economic Inequality", by Amartya Sen, 1997, SEJ [pdf]
• The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2013 [Amazon]
• The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality, by Branko Milanovic, 2012 [Basic, Amazon, B&N]
• Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization by Branko Milanovic, 2016 [Harvard UP, Amazon, B&N]
• Capitalism Alone: The future of the system that rules the world, by Branko Milanovic, 2019 [Harvard UP, Amazon, B&N]

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• Research Centers on Inequality
• Databases on Inequality
• Videos on Inequality
• Related institutes
• Advocacy groups
• Public organizing

• Research Centers on Inequality

• Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, at City University of New York (CUNY)
• University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)
• International Inequality Institute, at London School of Economics (LSE)
• Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP), at Brandeis University
• Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity, at Duke University
• Center for the Study of Inequality, at Cornell University
• Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality (CWI), at Columbia University
• Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
• Center for Equitable Growth (CEG), at University of California, Berkeley
• Egalitarian World Initiative (EWI), at University College Dublin
• Washington Center for Equitable Growth

• Databases on Inequality

• OECD Data on Income Inequality
• Opportunity Atlas
• All the Ginis Dataset at World Bank
• Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP)
• World Inequality Database (WID.world)
• World Income Inequality Database (WIID), WIDER at UN University.
• UTIP Datasets at University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP)

• Videos on Inequality

• "Inequality for All" with Robert Reich (2013) [documentary trailer]
• "The Costs of Inequality" by Joseph Stiglitz (2013) [Tedx]
• "How should global wealth be distributed?", by Michael Norton (2015) [Tedx]
• "The Past, Present and Future of US Income Inequality" with Valerie Romey (2017), [video]
• "Inequality: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?" by Ha-Joon Chang, Economics for People  (2019) [INET]

• Related institutes

• Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
• Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, at Ohio State University
• Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
• Pew Research Center
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Urban Institute
• Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

• Advocacy groups

• Economic Hardship Group
• The Equality Trust (UK)
• Public Citizen
• Citizens for Tax Justice
• The Gini Project
• Population Health Forum
• Patriotic Millionaires
• Center for American Progress
• Demos
• People's Action

• Public organizing (US)

• Americans for Tax Fairness
• Jobs with Justice
• The Other 98%
• Hedge Clippers
• Network Lobby
• Restaurant Opportunities Center United
• Fight for $15
• Black Lives Matter
• We are the 99 Percent
• Occupy Wall Street
• National Commitee on Pay Equity
• Strike Debt
• Women Are Getting Even (WAGE) Project
• Community Change
• National Action Network
• AFL-CIO
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• National Urban League

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