Stone Center Director Steven N. Durlauf will lead next week's Inequality Workshop! He will discuss the dynamics of intergenerational mobility through Markov Chains.

🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3PY8A1X
📅 Date: Friday, April 19, 2024
🕕 Time: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
📍 Location: Social…

Hoy hablé con Ricardo Raphael sobre #Desiguales en adn40 gran gusto pláticar sobre la historia de la desigualdad en México.

Un occhio al passato con Guido Alfani permette di capire perché, nonostante viviamo in una società mediamente più ricca del passato, continui ad allargarsi la forbice tra onepercenters e meno abbienti viasarfatti25.unibocconi.it/notizia.php?id…

10 Great Historical Books (2)
1) Pax Economica - Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social)
A wonderful recent work, covering an often forgotten history, left wing visions of free trade. Covers: radical liberals, socialist, feminist and radical Christian groups, and reasons for the decline in this thought

Lunedì su Modem (Radio Svizzera Italiana): una bella puntata dedicata ai super-ricchi, e un bello scambio con Barbara Antonioli Mantegazzini
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10 Great Historical Books
1) As Gods Among Men - Guido Alfani
A terrific work, covering inequality from a novel angle: how 'the rich' have been perceived in the West over centuries. Highly readable, breaking into themes, types of wealth and the role of 'the rich' over time.

Don't keep your research to yourself!

🔗 Submit here by April 17, 2024: bit.ly/3VqyEXo

Research School for Economic and Social History | Masterclass with Professor Francesca Trivellato - deadline applications 7 April 2024 posthumusinstitute.org/2024/04/02/mc-…

Die Reichen können es niemandem recht machen. Das war schon immer so. @FAZ_Net faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc… #fplus

🎙Public talk alert!🎙 Join us on Monday, June 24th for an engaging discussion on wealth, ethics, and societal responsibility with economic historian Guido Alfani and philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns @[email protected]

🎟️+ info & tickets at bit.ly/3xhbski

1/ “Today, bankers get more scorn than mining executives or major polluters. But history also offers clues as to what bankers and financiers could do to alleviate such resentment,” Guido Alfani argues: thedial.world/issue-14/banke…

Esta entrevista a Guido Alfani en elDiario.es es de lo más interesante: el papel de los ricos en las sociedades. No dejéis de leerla. Y el libro tiene muy buena pinta eldiario.es/economia/guido…

We are very pleased to announce that our next HEDG Host will be Guido Alfani 🤩👏

He will present his interesting and innovative new book 'As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West'🪙💎

📅11th April, 11am Danish Time

💻Registration syddanskuni.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Another related point is that '% of total taxes paid by top X%' is almost feudal way of understanding progressivity. The more unequal the society, the more 'progressive' it may seem by this measure. The top 5% in 16th century Venice for instance paid a lower tax rate 1/2

Interesante entrevista a Guido Alfani, profesor de Historia Económica de la Università Bocconi que ha publicado un interesante estudio, con valor enciclopédico, sobre el papel que han jugado los ricos y los superricos en Occidente eldiario.es/economia/guido…

VoxEU published yesterday a summary of my research on the causes and consequences of the global sanitary revolution (ca. 1850-1950). Thanks!

You can access it here: cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…