The Global Democratic Deficit: Undemocratic international institutions favor powerful countries—they secure power in the international system at a very cheap cost and chose who benefits from aid 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @PaulaDruschke 1/6 wid.world/news-article...

The Global Democratic Deficit: Undemocratic international institutions favor powerful countries—and shape who pays and who benefits - WID - World Inequality Database

The Global Democratic Deficit: Undemocratic international institutions favor powerful countries—and shape who pays and who benefits Paula Druschke and Gastón Nievas construct a novel historical databa...

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📢 We’re excited to announce that the 3rd edition of the World Inequality Conference will take place on 4–5 June 2026 in Paris. 📄The call for papers is now open — submit by December 1! ▶️ inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor... @pse.bsky.social @cris-sciencespo.bsky.social @taxobservatory.bsky.social

World Inequality Conference 2026 - World Inequality Lab

The World Inequality Lab is organizing the third edition of the World Inequality Conference, to be held at the Paris School of Economics on June 4-5, 2026.

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[Séminaire] : Ce vendredi 11h45, reprise du séminaire EPCI à la MSE Paris 1 Gaston Nievas (PSE) & Thomas Piketty (PSE,EHESS): Unequal Exchange and North-South Relations: Evidence from Global Trade Flows and the World Balance of Payments 1800-2025 www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/evenements/e...

New WP w/@thomaspiketty.bsky.social ! We build a database of World Historical BoP (wbop.world) and study +200 years of economic transactions Key takeaway: power plays a key role in global imbalances. Collective rules are needed to correct them. Check this thread 👇

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds. @thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system. wid.world/news-article...

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database

In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.

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