Q&A: Thomas Piketty on the Wealth Divide

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Piketty on Ireland

Not surprisingly, he wants an end to Ireland’s ‘dumping fiscal’. He makes another, more neutral point: if such an thing were to come about, it would be easier for Ireland if it were ended everywhere in Europe simultaneously.

A Short History of Brexit (Part 2: notes from Chapter 8 on)

CHAPTER 8: BREXIT Young (1999), p. 483. The speech is available at https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/113686. Young (1999), p. 479. Grob-Fitzgibbon (2016), pp. 438–9. The speech itself, as well as a superbly useful range of accompanying documents, is available at https://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/Bruges.asp. Young (1999), p. 423. Grob-Fitzgibbon (2016), p. 451. Grob-Fitzgibbon (2016), p. 453; https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/09/27/the-chequers-affair/. A reference presumably to […]

Une brève histoire du Brexit

I have just published a short history of Brexit. In the latter chapters, dealing with the Single Market, Brexit, and the subsequent negotiations, a lot of the (mainly official) sources used are freely available online. In order to make it easier for the interested reader to consult these sources, and find out more about the EU and […]

Launch of World Wealth and Income Database

Readers might be interested in the new World Wealth and Income Database, which was just launched at the American Economic Association (AEA) annual meeting in Chicago. It is coordinated by a small core team located at the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics. The presentation slides from the AEA are available here and […]