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Lucas Chancel

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Lucas Chancel, Co-Director of the World Inequality Database, is a lecturer at Sciences Po and a research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.

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  1. Escaping the Inequality-Data Dark Ages
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    Escaping the Inequality-Data Dark Ages

    Dec 23, 2019 Thomas Piketty, et al. lament governments' failure to collect the most basic statistics on the distribution of income and wealth.

  2. Why US Inequality Is Higher Than Europe’s
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    Why US Inequality Is Higher Than Europe’s

    Nov 12, 2019 Thomas Blanchet, et al. offer a new explanation for the sharply different income distributions on each side of the Atlantic.

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    Can America Maintain External Sustainability?

    Yu Yongding explains why demand for foreign capital inflows to offset the country’s savings shortfall may go unmet.
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    The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld

    Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.
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    Trump’s Self-Fulfilling Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach shows how the US president’s policies could create the very problems he falsely claims to be confronting.
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    Britain Must Downgrade the Special Relationship

    Chris Patten outlines steps UK policymakers must take to mitigate the strategic threat posed by the Trump administration.
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    America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel

    Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.
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    The Opacity of Hope

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    Former US President Barack Obama tried to move beyond the fearmongering of the George W. Bush era and unite the country around his own political persona. But as initial optimism gave way to disillusionment, fear once again took hold, setting the stage for the rise of Donald Trump.

     reflects on how the politics promoted by America’s first Black president gave rise to its first felonious one.
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    A New Gulf Growth Model

    Faris Al-Sulayman & Steffen Hertog explain why the region’s governments are well positioned to capitalize on recent geo-economic trends.
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    Small States Mean Big Returns

    Adnan Hassan sees lucrative investment opportunities in countries capable of adapting efficiently to rapid economic change.
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    AI Will Not Supercharge GDP Growth

    Adair Turner expects the technology to be everywhere but in the measured GDP statistics.

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