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Lucas Chancel, codirector of the World Inequality Lab and of the World Inequality Database (WID) at the Paris School of Economics, explains that economic inequality is on the rise after a historic decline. Inequality, he says, is now greater within advanced economies than between the world’s rich and poor countries. In a presentation at the conference on “Combating Inequality” at the Peterson Institute for International Economics on Oct. 17-18, 2019, Chancel outlined why racial and gender inequality remains high, how trade and technological advances cannot totally be blamed, and why progressive taxation offers a solution to curbing extreme inequality. He is joined by discussant Peter Diamond (MIT Department of Economics) and chair Adam Posen. |
