We are pleased to be co-hosting a special event with @lselaw.bsky.social and @centaxuk.bsky.social marking five years since the Wealth Tax Commission. Join us to discuss how the conversation has evolved and whether the UK should implement a wealth tax today. Register now ⬇️ buff.ly/02TzsUg

Would you like to know more about the AFSEE Programme? Join our Information Webinar on Monday, October 20 from 2:00-3:30 pm BST to hear from the AFSEE team. There will be Q&A at the end of the session where you can ask the team questions. 🔗 Register here: lse.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

💡 Research spotlight: Our Gender Justice and the Wellbeing Economy programme brought partners together for the first time at their two-day workshop at LSE in May 2025. This allowed for a collective discussion on the longer-term agenda of the programme. Read more on p.7 ⬇️ buff.ly/Mwmv7tF

💡 Research spotlight: Supported by @jrf-uk.bsky.social, III researchers have explored how to shift UK public attitudes to wealth. Key outputs include JRF’s 'Talking about Wealth Inequality' report, plus a 6-part podcast by @wealtherty.bsky.social. More on p.26 ⬇️ buff.ly/Lk028D1

Last week, we were delighted to host the first launch of the incredible new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social. If you missed the event, you can catch up on the recording now ⬇️

📣 Upcoming III seminar: Professor Peter Lanjouw considers the accuracy of estimates by the World Bank, which suggest that poverty in India has dramatically declined. 🎟️ Register in-person: buff.ly/9BKgtFG 💻 Register online: buff.ly/YLadPUu

🔜 Next week! We are excited to be joined by Emma Chamberlain, @helenmiller.bsky.social, @maharafiatal.bsky.social, and @mikesavagelse.bsky.social to discuss why it is so important for the Chancellor to address current wealth trends in her upcoming budget. Register now ⬇️ buff.ly/fXy9xsz

People don’t weigh up inequality in the abstract – they interpret it via an “us” vs “them” lens, argue Daniel Walsh and Sonja Zmerli. And “them” includes not just “the 1%” but figures such as politicians, footballers & bankers #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗 buff.ly/iLgWZqn

Catch up on last week's III seminar with Dr Laura Sochas 💻 She explores how social policies such as austerity, migration policy and family policy shape reproductive inequalities and health inequalities in the UK and Europe. Watch it now ⬇️

💬 New interview: @joelsuss.ft.com caught up with @thomaspiketty.bsky.social at our recent public event to talk about the rise of populism, wealth taxation, fiscal debt, intergenerational inequality and artificial intelligence. Read the full feature in @financialtimes.com ⬇️

📣 New III working paper by Enrico Nichelatti, Annalena Oppel and Abrams Tagem: This paper demonstrates that floods are not merely environmental shocks but powerful drivers of inequality that interact with South Africa's pre-existing spatial, racial, and economic disparities. 🔗 buff.ly/0ZY53vC

📣 Coming up today! There's still time to register for the official launch of @brankomilan.bsky.social's new book 'Great global transformation: national market liberalism in a multipolar world'. Sign up now ⬇️

In a new piece for @uk.theconversation.com, @mikesavagelse.bsky.social argues that we need to restore the vital principle that private wealth entails social responsibilities. 🎟️ Hear more in our online event on 18 November: buff.ly/fXy9xsz Read the article ⬇️ buff.ly/QG56QyD

A landmark G20 report led by Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz has sounded the alarm on an ‘inequality emergency’. We welcome the setting up of an International Panel on Inequality and we hope to support this important work in the future. Read more ⬇️ buff.ly/hIj9XDg

📣 Our 2025 annual report is now online! This report highlights our work over the past year, which continues to shape debates, inform policy, and foster collaborations across disciplines and national borders. Read it now ⬇️ buff.ly/XWCHaYM

🔜 This week! In his new book, @brankomilan.bsky.social explores our fears and he shows us the fight ahead: as plutocracy returns, global war threatens, and a new system silently shapes our nations, driving malcontent to breaking point. Register now ⬇️

📆 Upcoming III seminar: Join us on 11 November, as Louis Sirugue provides a meta-analysis of intergenerational income mobility around the world. 💻 Attend online: buff.ly/ELpNRMY 🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/ONQn6aR

If refugees have access to laptops, internet access and digital skills, is that enough to find work in the digital economy? Or do online jobs rely as much on human relationships? Lorraine Charles, Marie Godin and Shuting Xia explore in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📣 Vacancy alert: We are seeking to recruit a Research Officer (post-doctoral researcher) for a 24-month period to conduct original research on topics related to inequality, intergenerational mobility, and inequality of opportunity. Apply by 20 November ⬇️ buff.ly/M23KHL9

📣 New III working paper: Javier Olivera, Christian Breunig, @ts-broderstad.bsky.social, Patrick Dumont and Maj-Britt Sterba compare the “mental maps” of redistribution among politicians and citizens across seven parliaments. 🔗 buff.ly/VJM2ICl

"Billionaire wealth has gone up 1,000% since 1990... since 2010 it has more than doubled" 💰 On last week's #BBCQT, @faizashaheen.bsky.social argued that a wealth tax needs to be taken seriously at the next budget.

“Some young children are still learning basic hygiene, while others are being groomed for Eton before they can even walk” – Lee Elliot Major on the global education arms race, with news of a family offering £180,000 for a private tutor for their baby #LSEInequalitiesBlog

“The persistence of violence in Colombia is not an anomaly within an otherwise stable democracy”. In our latest blog post, Jenny Pearce & Juan David Velasco explain why, turning the spotlight on the elites that sustain the status quo #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/sCfkwKs

@brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book 'The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World' reviewed by Ivan Radanovic for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social ✍️ 🎟️ Register for our book launch on 6 November: buff.ly/d0sVFOw Read the review 👇 buff.ly/geSIAGY

📄 The Inequality (or the Growth) We Measure: Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes New paper by Facundo Alvaredo, Mauricio De Rosa, @ignacioflores.bsky.social and Marc Morgan Read it now ⬇️ buff.ly/9GwqB3v

Next week! We are hosting the first launch of Branko Milanovic's new book The Great Global Transformation, which reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world today. The event will be followed by a book signing 📖 Register now ⬇️

On Thursday 6 November, @lseinequalities.bsky.social and @lseevents.bsky.social will host #BrankoMilanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social for a launch of the book. Find details and register below 👇

NEW✨ Is neoliberalism being replaced by something even more capitalist? @brankomilan.bsky.social 's new book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World reviewed by Ivan Radanović. @stone-lis.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

“Nuestra investigación revela que la riqueza, el poder político y el estatus social en Colombia — un país de 53 millones de habitantes— se concentra en apenas 932 personas” – Jenny Pearce & Juan David Velasco en nuestra última publicación del blog #LSEInequalitiesBlog

🌳 Join us on 12 November for a conversation with Prof Seema Arora-Jonsson and @sumimadhok.bsky.social! ➡️ This event is a call to rethink sustainability not as a technical fix, but as a project of justice. ➡️ Co-hosted by @gsos-lse.bsky.social ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...

What does a £180,000 job ad for a private tutor *for a baby* reveal about the global education arms race? Lee Elliot Major assesses the issue and considers what can be done to level the playing field. Could tutoring – ironically – be part of the solution? #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/dAisTWb

“Our findings show that most of Colombia’s wealth, political power and social prestige – across a country with a population of 53 million – is concentrated on just 932 individuals” – Jenny Pearce & Juan David Velasco on “elite constellations" #LSEInequalitiesBlog 🔗 buff.ly/YldrN40

📣 New vacancy: The post-holder will help establish the new research programme on the Economics of Environmental Inequality. They will conduct research on how climate change and policy interact with and reinforce existing social and economic disparities. Apply by 13 November ⬇️ buff.ly/zs3T0hj

Research traditions often exclude or relegate artistic ways of knowing to the margins 🎨 Annalena Oppel argues universities should take a more plural approach to art as research. Read her new post for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social ⬇️

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“Around a quarter of children counted as poor by our measure would be overlooked if poverty programs relied only on per capita household income” –Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier Bargain & Maira Colacce on considering intra-household differences for poverty estimates #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Tech visionaries are presenting new ways of augmenting our day-to-day lives, like Zuckerberg's new 'smart glasses'. What does this mean for how we see the world around us - with and without technology? 👓 Read the new blog by Dan Nixon, Managing Editor of LSE Inequalities Blog ⬇️

📣 Upcoming online event! One of the key questions facing the chancellor ahead of her budget is whether she will seek to raise money through greater taxation of wealth. Our expert panel will weigh in on what measures they think should be prioritised in her budget. 🔗 buff.ly/busnGwf

📝 "No one describes better and quantifies with such precision the global transformations now underway than Branko Milanovic" Join us for the first launch event of the highly acclaimed new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social on 6 November. Register now ⬇️ buff.ly/d0sVFOw

📹 To mark 40 years since the 1985 Broadwater Farm Riots, BFI are screening the 1988 Channel 4 Documentary exploring the community’s attempts to rebuild in the aftermath of the unrest. 🗣️ Featuring a post-screening discussion hosted by Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka

📣 Upcoming III seminar: Laura Sochas explores how social policies such as austerity, migration policy and family policy shape reproductive inequalities and health inequalities among parents in the UK and Europe. Register in-person: buff.ly/yDExgHn Register online: buff.ly/mzKXPGt

The chancellor is expected to use her budget to change the rules on limited liability partnerships. This follows research by @centaxuk.bsky.social showing that almost half of partnership income goes to those in the top 0.1 per cent. Read more in @thetimes.com ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

What should Rachel Reeves do about tax in November's budget? We are excited to be hosting an online event with The Conversation on 18 November, bringing together leading experts to discuss how the chancellor could address wealth and inequality. Register now ⬇️

📣 Vacancy alert! @afsee-lse.bsky.social are looking for a Communications Manager to create, implement, and lead on all aspects of the AFSEE programme's communications strategy. Apply by 4 November ⬇️ buff.ly/m4Xzz9z

Global poverty measures rely on household data. But what if we account for the differences in welfare *within* households? Ulugbek Aminjonov, Olivier Bargain & Maira Colacce find a significant gender gap and even starker “child gap” in resource shares #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/3UwZEVu

Catch up on last week's III seminar with Professor Jean-Paul Faguet! Using simple agent-based models of exchange economies, he explores whether it's possible that market dynamics are innately inequality-generating. Watch it here ⬇️

Join this event hosted by @lseusablog.bsky.social on 28 October: Gordon Hanson addresses the origins of job loss, the reasons for its geographic concentration, and what we’ve learned about policies intended to help left-behind places. Register here ⬇️ buff.ly/p1ZxgCt

“We find that kings and queens tend to outlive their siblings and consorts… Instead of cutting their lives short, it seems the responsibilities involved in ruling a kingdom may in fact be good for your health” – Joan Costa-Font in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

New open-access edited volume out now on @lsepress.bsky.social! This brings together some of the world’s leading economists and policy experts at LSE to provide the guidance and principles needed to assist today's political leaders and policymakers. Read it now 👇 buff.ly/nq0xriM

Join us for the launch of the highly anticipated new book by @brankomilan.bsky.social 📖 He reveals the seismic shifts that are shaping our world, with global neoliberalism on its last legs. As the status quo of the past fifty years crumbles, he asks what remains in its wake? 🎟️ buff.ly/ggNJ4pW