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Inequality: Some Political Economy Issues by Tim Besley (LSE)
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Several IFS Deaton Review panellists led a special session on inequalities at the European Economic Association’s annual conference on 26th August 2019. They discussed recent changes in inequalities and the challenges they pose for social science and for policy, including how the IFS Deaton Review will be trying to address those challenges. Topics covered included drivers of trends in earnings and incomes, including trade, the labour market and redistributive policy; dimensions of inequality including health, wellbeing and political voice; how inequality can affect political changes and how certain political outcomes can affect inequality; and how inequalities affect, and are affected by, communities, the local environment and families.
Chair
James Banks
James is an CPP Institute Co-director and Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester.
Speakers
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Pinelopi is a Research Fellow and the Elihu Professor of Economics and an Affiliate of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University.
Richard Blundell
Richard is an CPP Institute Co-director and the Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London.
Tim Besley
Timothy is a Research Associate at the IFS and a Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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