Before he published his essay on inequality, Paul Graham sent it to me for comment. I sent him some quick impressions and promised a more…
Paul Graham is Still Asking to be Eaten
An Obviously Critical Response to “Economic Inequality” by Paul Graham
Global Inequality — Harvard University Press
Winner of the Bruno Kreisky Prize, Karl Renner InstitutA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year A Livemint Best Book of the YearOne of the world’s leading economists of inequality, Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale. Drawing on vast data sets and cutting-edge research, he explains the benign and malign forces that make inequality rise and fall within and among nations. He also reveals who has been helped the most by globalization, who has been held back, and what policies might tilt the balance toward economic justice.“The data [Milanovic] provides offer a clearer picture of great economic puzzles, and his bold theorizing chips away at tired economic orthodoxies.”—The Economist“Milanovic has written an outstanding book…Informative, wide-ranging, scholarly, imaginative and commendably brief. As you would expect from one of the world’s leading experts on this topic, Milanovic has added significantly to important recent works by Thomas Piketty, Anthony Atkinson and François Bourguignon…Ever-rising inequality looks a highly unlikely combination with any genuine democracy. It is to the credit of Milanovic’s book that it brings out these dangers so clearly, along with the important global successes of the past few decades.—Martin Wolf, Financial Times
The Divide — Jason Hickel
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions Penguin Random House UK, 2017
How Paul Graham Is Wrong
I love Paul Graham’s essays and his latest is no exception: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In. I agree that the US deserves dramatically better immigration policies, but in the meantime I’m…
Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality - Clay Shirky
Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality.
The Origin and Future of Economic Inequality
New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
Praxis on Twitter / X
I think Eduardo Galeano in this piece does a great job pointing out how society tolerates inequalities. More importantly he exposes the sanitized terms we use to justify them. He juxtaposes concepts that our political and ethical dictionary would never allow together. When a++ pic.twitter.com/XJsvSNUxVY— Praxis (@praxiss) September 25, 2026
annotations: Les aspects structurels des inégalités
Traduction française du billet de blog "Inequality: the structural aspects" de Branko Milanovic
Les inégalités aux Etats-Unis (1/5) : pourquoi l'écart s'est-il creusé entre les riches et les autres ?
traduction française du billet de blog "Why did the rich pull away from the rest? Understanding inequality: Part I" de Paul Krugman
The Psychology of Inequality
Researchers find that much of the damage done by being poor comes from feeling poor.
Is Inequality Inevitable?
Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests
J. K. Gibson-Graham
J. K. Gibson-Graham is a pen name shared by feminist economic geographers Julie Graham and Katherine Gibson. The two professors' landmark first book The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) was first published in 1996 (a second edition with a new Introduction was published in 2006), followed by A Postcapitalist Politics in 2006. The two scholars also founded the Community Economies Collective (CEC), the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) and the Community Economies Institute (CEI), all "international collaborative networks of researchers who share an interest in theorizing, discussing, representing and ultimately enacting new visions of economy."[1] Gibson-Graham's works focus on untying the economy from capitalism and the possibility of transforming economic relations within existing conditions.
Economic Inequality
How is inequality measured, who produces key databases, and what does the data tell us?