Inequality Dynamics in Modern Capitalism

Syllabus (updated: June 24)

Lecture 1: Why is distributional analysis important?

Lectures 2-3: First principles and statistical tools

Lecture 4: Income and Wealth Inequality Dynamics - Part I

Lecture 5: Income and Wealth Inequality Dynamics - Part II

Lecture 6: Global Inequality - Part I

Lecture 7: Global Inequality - Part II

Lecture 8: Distributional Varieties of Capitalism - Part I

Lecture 9: Distributional Varieties of Capitalism - Part II

Lecture 10: Where do we stand, and what's next?

Note: these slides build on previous work by Tomas Cvrcek and Pawel Bukowski

Lecture 1: The Emergence of Property Rights

Lecture 2: Enforcement and credibility (jointly prepared with Elena Butti)

Lecture 3: Institutions and growth

Lecture 4: Property rights and inequality

Lecture 5: Property rights and privatisation

Lecture 6: Property rights and technology

Lecture 7: Business ownership

Lecture 8: Property Rights and the Environment

Lecture 9: Land Ownership

Lecture 10: Summary