Seven lessons for engaging the public on topics around extreme concentrations of wealth, wealth inequality and wealth taxes – latest blog post from Milly Shotter of @patmillsuk.bsky.social following their viral campaign this summer #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/i3ZADGW

How to talk to the public about wealth inequality

Seven learnings from a viral campaign

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We're pleased to announce a new Memorandum of Understanding between @lseinequalities.bsky.social and @eclac.bsky.social, signed at @lsedatascience.bsky.social's Global Forum for AI and the Social Sciences. Read more: www.lse.ac.uk/global-ai-fo...

Why an Extreme Wealth Line? Because unchecked wealth harms democracy, society & the planet, says @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social

How do you engage the public on wealth inequality? Milly Shotter from @patmillsuk.bsky.social shares the thinking behind their “how much is too rich?” campaign, which has received more than 10 million views since the start of the summer #LSEInequalitiesBlog Read the post here: buff.ly/i3ZADGW

📢 New research in The Lancet, co-authored by Xavier Jara Tamayo, explores how wealth redistribution policies could help offset the health impacts of international aid cuts. Read here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wealth redistribution policies to mitigate the impact of development assistance defunding: a retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis up to 2030

The ongoing decline in funding for humanitarian and development assistance stands in stark contrast to the global rise in wealth concentration and wid…

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🔓️ New open-access book This edited volume presents an innovative framework for Sustainable Human Development. Leading experts higlight how balancing human wellbeing and planetary boundaries requires moving beyond growth-focused horizons. Read it here ⬇️ buff.ly/7s6xpbF

What do African policy leaders need from inequality research now? Join the public launch event for the African Inequality Review - a multi-country research initiative to advance understanding of inequality in Africa. 📆 15 Sept, 15:30-16:30 BST (16:30-17:30 SAST) 📍 Online buff.ly/LZa1p9x

Public launch | African Inequality Review | University of Cape Town

What do African policy leaders need from inequality research now? The African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research at the University of Cape Town, the International Inequalities Institute at…

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We were incredibly pleased to co-host a two-day workshop at LSE examining how we can move beyond GDP. The event convened experts from academia, policy and international organisations to compare the leading methodological options and what they can offer for policy. @ophioxford.bsky.social

What responsibility do British institutions have for slavery, colonialism, and their continuing effects? @ashaherten.bsky.social and co-authors argue that Afrikan Heritage Communities must shape the process of any public inquiry into reparatory justice #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/S0AjL2V

Britain's inquiry into reparatory justice must be shaped by those most affected by slavery

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📢 "Inequality is a policy choice, and its extremes can be reversed" Larry Kramer and @josephestiglitz.bsky.social call on Andy Burnham to back an International Panel on Inequality—a proposal supported by leading academics from the III and beyond. Read their article in @prospectmagazine.co.uk ⬇️

Why Andy Burnham must back an International Panel on Inequality

Inequality is a policy choice, and its extremes can be reversed

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Is the intensive, “mother-centred” model of childcare an immutable fact of human nature – or the result of social norms? The answer has radical implications for closing the gender pay gap, writes Camille Landais in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/Qt37PuX

Why having children drives most of the remaining gender pay gap

In the world's richest countries, 80-90% of the remaining pay gap between men and women can be traced to the arrival of a first child. Can this gap be closed?

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Most of the remaining gender pay gap can be traced to the arrival of a first child, argues Camille Landais. Can this gap be closed? It depends on whether the “mother-centred” model of childcare is a biological necessity or a more malleable social norm #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/Qt37PuX

Why having children drives most of the remaining gender pay gap

In the world's richest countries, 80-90% of the remaining pay gap between men and women can be traced to the arrival of a first child. Can this gap be closed?

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📢 Register now for the 2nd Michael Lipton memorial lecture with Professor Francisco H. G. Ferreira at @ids.ac.uk His lecture will discuss on inherited inequality in Latin America, examining persistence in both income and educational attainment across generations. 📆 17 November 2026, 3-5pm

Michael Lipton memorial lecture with Francisco H. G. Ferreira - Institute of Development Studies

Join the Michael Lipton memorial lecture delivered by Professor Francisco H. G. Ferreira of the London School of Economics (LSE) who will speak on Inequality and Inclusive Growth.

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“Capitalism has generated extraordinary prosperity, yet it has also created deep and consequential inequalities” – @seamusapower.bsky.social on how to use our understanding of these two stories to imagine a third story #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Three stories of inequality

Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty. But it has also produced extraordinary inequality of wealth and power. How do we reconcile these two statements?

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“The demand is not simply for better treatment from those in power – it is for a different relationship to power altogether” – Harshita Sinha & Ritika Arora-Kukreja on India’s Gen Z protests and what it means to practice citizenship #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/jCxgMBo

Art is often seen as playing a supporting role for research in the social sciences, but bringing the two together can generate new and productive relationships. Annalena Oppel and @michaelvaughan.bsky.social reflect on this process in a new post for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social buff.ly/RlQK1k1

Putting art into dialogue with research can reframe approaches to wealth inequality - LSE Impact

Can bringing art and social science into dialogue place “research facts” and “artistic values” into new and productive relationships?

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Across India, Gen Z protesters are asking: what does it mean to be a citizen in a state that positions itself as a democracy, yet remains distant from the grievances of its own citizens? Harshita Sinha & Ritika Arora-Kukreja explore #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/jCxgMBo

India's Gen Z are making accountability a condition of citizenship

Using Gen-Z lingo, music and memes, the youth protests sweeping India are questioning what it means to practice citizenship in the world's largest democracy

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Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty. But it has also produced deep and enduring inequalities. @seamusapower.bsky.social asks: how do we reconcile these two statements? And how might we imagine a more moral form of capitalism? #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Three stories of inequality

Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty. But it has also produced extraordinary inequality of wealth and power. How do we reconcile these two statements?

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📢 Call for papers: Fiscal policy for sustainable development in the Global South On SOUTHMOD’s 10th anniversary, the III and @unu-wider.bsky.social are organising an academic workshop on fiscal policy in developing countries. 📆 Apply by 20 September 2026 🔗 buff.ly/8IGUTJQ

The @afsee-lse.bsky.social programme is looking for a proactive, organised forward-thinking communications and marketing professional. The postholder will have responsibility for all the day-to-day AFSEE related internal and external communications. 📆 Apply by 21 August 🔗 buff.ly/gqZnG5J

Forty prominent academics have urged Andy Burnham’s government to sign the UK up to help create a new International Panel on Inequality (IPI). The open letter was signed by III academics and associates including Francisco Ferreira, Naila Kabeer, Tania Burchardt, and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social.

Top economists urge Burnham to sign UK up to UN initiative on global inequality

Open letter signed by 40 academics including Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz and Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level

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We tend to see the poor people who inject drugs in one of two ways: self-destructive, or passive victims of a broken system. But after years of fieldwork in San Francisco, @sarahbrothers.bsky.social found something else – see our latest blog post. #LSEInequalitiesBlog

I met with the “hit doctors” who practice care without credentials

We see the very poor who inject drugs as either self-destructive or as passive victims of a broken system. But Sarah Brothers found something else.

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If heat-related deaths in 2050 are to be no higher than they are today, then heatwaves must be treated as both a housing and an inequality issue. - Philip Broadbent in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/Qoy9Rl6

Heat deaths are a public health crisis rooted in housing inequality

Extreme heat is a public health issue that's rooted in housing inequality. Poorer households, renters, older people and those in urban areas are most exposed

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As the UK's fifth heatwave this year peaks, Philip Broadbent argues that the public health problems related to extreme heat should be treated as a year-round housing and inequality crisis, not just a seasonal weather event #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/EZvgD3i

Heat deaths are a public health crisis rooted in housing inequality

Extreme heat is a public health issue that's rooted in housing inequality. Poorer households, renters, older people and those in urban areas are most exposed

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The @afsee-lse.bsky.social programme is looking for a proactive, organised forward-thinking communications and marketing professional. The postholder will have responsibility for all the day-to-day AFSEE related internal and external communications. 📆 Apply by 21 August 🔗 buff.ly/gqZnG5J

“For many children with disabilities in Nepal, the promise of education remains out of reach, not because of a lack of legal guarantees, but due to persistent failures in implementation” – Dev Datta Joshi in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog @afsee-lse.bsky.social buff.ly/lSwrZsc

How to overcome the barriers to inclusive education in Nepal

For many children with disabilities in Nepal, the promise of education remains out of reach due to various systemic, institutional, and social barriers

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📢 Watch Naila Kabeer's keynote presentation at the Development Studies Association conference She highlights the importance of feminist values and priorities in helping us navigate the transition to a new economy.

Reimagining pathways to gender justice in an era of uncertainities: Naila Kabeer, LSE

Keynote at the Development Studies Association conference, DSA2026 at the Centre for Sustainable Development, University College Dublin. Professor Naila Kabeer, LSE speaks on: From growth to…

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“Decisions are made *with* communities, not for them. Women are intentionally centred as agents of change because what transforms a woman transforms her children, and through them, the next generation” – Zainab Salbi in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/XTFAiJk

Who gets ahead? In our recent seminar, Javier Terrero Dávila discussed new research across four countries exploring how income mobility differs depending on country, age, gender and education level. Watch it here ⬇️

Who gets ahead? Cross-country evidence on intragenerational income mobility | LSE III Event

Part of the Inequalities Seminar Series at LSE 26 May 2026 Speaker: Javier Terrero Dávila, Economist, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Income mobility is often invoked as…

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Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and biodiversity loss – but they are also leading the way when it comes to innovative solutions to the ecological crisis, writes Zainab Salbi on @lseinequalities.bsky.social

How women are healing the planet from the ground up

Women are leading when it comes to innovative solutions to the ecological crisis, based on a relationship with nature grounded in care and stewardship

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