“Communities are starting to connect their local data centres to the sprawling ecosystems that these tools are embedded within, and the immense power accruing to the system architects” – Quito Tsui & @sixfouronea.net in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

💻️ Watch our recent seminar with Ashraf Pulikkamath He explores whether gender-responsive public finance can sometimes operate through existing institutional inequalities across caste, gender, and marriage - rather than transforming them. buff.ly/oPQhI9b

Is income inequality on the rise everywhere? Reviewing evidence from 138 countries, this new WP argues that two facts coexist: income inequality remains unacceptably high in many countries, yet from 2000 to 2020 inequality was more often declining or stable than increasing. bit.ly/3T4weOQ

How do media narratives shape public attitudes during periods of high inflation? Using a survey experiment in Germany, this paper finds that exposure to inflation narratives increased support for redistributive and regulatory policies among right-leaning respondents. 🔗 buff.ly/E7cIOdO

Resistance to data centres – which are vital for AI – is growing. But these social justice efforts mostly operate at a local level. So what happens if data centres are put into space? Quito Tsui & @sixfouronea.net explore in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Are adolescents with stronger literacy skills more resistant to fake news? A new paper by Mobarak Hossain and Jason Jabbari finds a significant positive association between reading achievement and resistance to misinformation. buff.ly/yV0IxYY

What lessons do Succession, Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey offer when it comes to the depiction of wealth inequality? @michaelvaughan.bsky.social Annalena Oppel, @Jonathanmijs.com & @wealtherty.bsky.social explore in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

“A single workplace grievance, amplified through a digital platform, produced a social movement and a constitutional amendment – all without a union or a party behind it“ – @edsonmendes.bsky.social & Luan Cardoso Ferreira in our latest blog post

How can storytelling help – or harm – the problem of extreme wealth inequality? @michaelvaughan.bsky.social Annalena Oppel, @Jonathanmijs.com & @wealtherty.bsky.social offer four simple questions for creative content producers to reflect on. #LSEInequalitiesBlog

From one TikTok post, a pharmacy worker in Rio sparked a social movement & constitutional amendment for workers’ rights. What are the lessons for digital activism around the world @edsonmendes.bsky.social and Luan Cardoso Ferreira explore #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Un vídeo de TikTok de un trabajador de farmacia en Brasil impulsó un movimiento social y una enmienda constitucional por derechos laborales. ¿Qué nos dice sobre el activismo digital? @edsonmendes.bsky.social y Luan Cardoso Ferreira #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/Pwbn8k6

For decades, development policy has focused on expanding access to finance. Yet access alone may not be enough. Meghna Chotaliya explores whether strengthening banking systems may be one of the most overlooked drivers of long-run development. 📆 14 July, 12.30 to 1.30pm buff.ly/mkF6LqU

What lessons does the last century of scholarship on poverty definition and measurement hold for the development of an extreme wealth line? Read our second III working paper with @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social @michaelvaughan.bsky.social @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/hNzI96I

“Musk has become increasingly important in European politics in recent years at a time when his wealth has increased in hugely exponential terms” @michaelvaughan.bsky.social was quoted in @theguardian.com on Elon Musk’s outsized influence over political processes. buff.ly/xfxoeqz

Two views on UK politics and inequality: “Midson is 17, I’m 52; she lives in rural Cornwall, I live in London; she’s going into her A Level year; I’m in my 27th year working for the same organisation, The Guardian” – @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social in a guest blog #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Listen back to this #LondonClimateWeek event featuring III Visiting Professor in Practice Ruth Kattumuri The discussion examined how AI can act as a force multiplier to counter climate risks, while addressing challenges such as energy intensity, data concentration, and sovereignty.

III Visiting Fellow Gaby Harris was interviewed for Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 📻️ She discussed her research on how girls negotiate forms of pocket money to facilitate consumption, illuminating how these practices involve class and moral valuations. Listen to the full episode ⬇️

We are proud to have supported yesterday's event celebrating 40 years of @neweconomics.bsky.social. With powerful lectures by Angela Rayner and Jayati Ghosh, this event set out the urgency of tackling inequality and provided the bold ideas and practical solutions needed to create a better world.

Our new working paper with @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social lays out the foundations for an extreme wealth line 📉 It examines the harms that excess wealth causes to people, societies, economies, democracies and the planet. @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/h8nKk6t

Do disparities between generations drive populism? Does geographical exclusion – such as the infrastructure lacking in rural vs urban areas – alter one’s relationship to politics? Guardian columnist @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social discusses in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/41DMCaN

📢 Join us on Tuesday 7 July for a seminar by Dr Ashraf Pulikkamath He explores whether gender-responsive public finance can sometimes maintain existing institutional inequalities across caste, gender, and marriage rather than transforming them. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-bud...

“Workers’ perceptions about AI’s impact on work are shaped, in part, by local labour market conditions... For example, in the Global South, AI is helping refugees access work opportunities and carry out work” – Michelle T. Lee in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

“The Brexit referendum divided not only opinions but also people’s microeconomic behaviours... driving them to spend, borrow and buy homes differently, depending on which side of the divide they stood on” – Pei Kuang @d-luca.bsky.social & @zhiwuwei.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📢 Exciting opportunity to join the @afsee-lse.bsky.social team! The postholder will promote the global engagement and impact of Atlantic Senior Fellows in Social and Economic Equity by providing operational, programmatic and strategic support to the programme. Apply by 30 June ⬇️ buff.ly/M8aKB7M

📢 New III working paper This paper reviews the evidence on the levels and trends of income and consumption inequality around the world during 2000–2019. It examines how inequality levels vary across countries and whether inequality has been rising more often than declining. 🔗 buff.ly/0HyfuRV

📢 Read the next post in the Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) series on the @uclamericas.bsky.social blog Daniel Alves examines inequality levels and trends for income, wealth, land, education, and health.

Concerns about AI-driven job displacement have intensified – but much of the reporting focuses on the Global North. Interviewing refugee digital workers in East Africa, Michelle T. Lee finds a surprising degree of optimism about the impact of AI #LSEInequalitiesBlog buff.ly/WpYMoSI

Ten years on from Brexit, we can ask: how did the economic behaviours of Leavers differ from Remainers? In our latest blog post, Pei Kuang @d-luca.bsky.social & @zhiwuwei.bsky.social find that the housing market followed a markedly different trajectory in Leave vs Remain areas #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📢 New chapter by Kirsten Sehnbruch in @academic.oup.com This chapter shows how a multidimensional definition of poor-quality employment can be conceptualized and measured in the context of Latin American labour markets. 🔗 buff.ly/icuFztP

As Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social argues that we need to reckon with the threat posed by extreme wealth to our society. Through initiatives like the extreme wealth line project, we can find out the threshold at which wealth begins to cause harms.

“I like to talk about vulnerability. I like to talk about emotions…. I see them as sources of raw energy. And in an age of angst… I think it's a huge mistake that political scientists are not talking enough [about] emotions” – Elif Shafak #LSEInequalitiesBlog

“Inside the novel, unlike on social media, there's room for multiplicity, for nuance, all of these things that we are fast losing [today]” – Elif Shafak, award-winning novelist and political scientist in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog @afsee-lse.bsky.social

“The youth unemployment rate for Black African South Africans was 49% in 2025, compared to 12% for white South Africans (ages 15-34)” – Mlondi Mveli Mdluli on the post-apartheid settlement in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📢 Exciting opportunity to join the @afsee-lse.bsky.social team! The postholder will promote the global engagement and impact of Atlantic Senior Fellows in Social and Economic Equity by providing operational, programmatic and strategic support to the programme. Apply by 30 June ⬇️ buff.ly/M8aKB7M

What is the impact of heat on educational achievement? This new III working paper estimates the effect of cumulative heat exposure on standardised test scores for over 3.4 million Italian fifth-grade students across seven school years. 🔗 buff.ly/T02ufIS

📢 Job vacancy Join @centaxuk.bsky.social as their new communications and events officer. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and delivering the external profile of the Centre. 🗓 Deadline: 21 June 🔗 centax.org.uk/job-vacancy-...

📢 III Director Francisco H. G. Ferreira gave a keynote address at the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). He presented at the Sixth Regional Seminar on Social Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, analysing the persistence of intergenerational inequalities.

Elif Shafak: “We’re living in [an] age that constantly tells us we have to think in dichotomies: are you one of us? Are you one of them? … What literature does is it melts away those dualities” – Part II of her interview with @afsee-lse.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

📢 Call for papers: Second Conference ECINEQ-Latin American Chapter, Montevideo, October 28-29 2026 Submissions welcomed with theoretical and empirical analysis on inequality, mobility, employment, poverty, and exploitation. 📝 Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 🔗 buff.ly/wvlSEkt

“I want to understand: Where are the taboos? Where are the things that we find difficult to talk about?” – Elif Shafak spoke to @afsee-lse.bsky.social about inequalities – and how literature can expand our worldview #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

50 years ago today, when Black schoolchildren protested the imposition of Afrikaans as the language of instruction, the state opened fire. Today, the problems facing South Africa’s youth are still defined by race, writes Mlondi Mveli Mdluli. #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

🚨 This week! 🚨 Our panel will explore how environmental, economic and social policy can work together to ensure that climate action reduces, rather than reinforces, inequality. Last chance to secure your spot ⬇️ buff.ly/M3UEeRx

“Might you be attached to the status of being the one who knows, or to your *form* of knowledge? Has your knowledge at some point offered a sense of security and defence?” – Anthea Lawson digs into the psychosocial foundations of the saviour complex #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Traditional estimates put the gender pay gap at around 8%. But if you factor in unpaid domestic work, this rises to 43% – @marie-andreescu.bsky.social, Valentina Gabrielli, Romaine Loubes & Anne-Sophie Robilliard in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog @wid.world

What is driving the rise in populism - and how can we stop it? Catch up on our recent event for the launch of the new book by Liam Byrne. Our panel drew crucial connections between rising populism and growing inequality. Watch it here ⬇️

📢 A new framework for incorporating poor-quality employment into global poverty measures. Read the new paper by Kirsten Sehnbruch, Ricardo Nogales and Mauricio Apablaza: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

In our latest blog, Anthea Lawson, author of How Not To Save The World, investigates the psychosocial foundations of the “saviour complex”. For those committed to social change, might questioning one’s own assumptions be a good place to start? #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

Across the world, inequality is widening, the climate crisis is accelerating, and public trust in political institutions is eroding. Join us on 1 July, as Andy Burnham and Jayati Ghosh set out how we deliver a radically better world for both people and planet. 🔗 buff.ly/zQLiCWo

Women work more than men hours but earn, on average, 43% less per hour when you factor in domestic as well as economic labour – @marie-andreescu.bsky.social, Valentina Gabrielli, Romaine Loubes & Anne-Sophie Robilliard of the @wid.world #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

The climate crisis is reshaping economies, societies, and livelihoods—but not everyone bears its costs equally. Our #LSEFestival panel brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore the deep links between climate change and inequality. Secure your spot 🎟️