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.

📢 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!

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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

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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 👇

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.

🚨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.

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