Marco Ranaldi
@marcoranaldi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at UCL and Director of UCL CNET
Political Economy | Capitalism | Inequality | Fractals | Sampling
Website: mranaldi.com
Music: mranaldi.com/music
Political Economy | Capitalism | Inequality | Fractals | Sampling
Website: mranaldi.com
Music: mranaldi.com/music
Pinned
In my new WD paper, I analyze the global capital and labor income distributions, highlighting a capitalization process that benefited the global middle class at the start of the 21st century.
📄 Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...
📊 Database & description: www.mranaldi.com/research
📄 Open-access paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...
📊 Database & description: www.mranaldi.com/research
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📢 Event Announcement!
Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop.
We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby!
✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12
Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop.
We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby!
✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12
12th London Inequality Workshop
The London Inequality Workshop brings together researchers studying economic inequality, based in and around London.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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L'ultimo Rapporto Povertà di Caritas Italiana ospita anche un mio saggio, con Giacomo Gabbuti.
Parliamo delle disuguaglianze esistenti e del come e perché occuparsene. Felici di aver ospitato la presentazione all'università Roma Tre.
La registrazione completa👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ht...
Parliamo delle disuguaglianze esistenti e del come e perché occuparsene. Felici di aver ospitato la presentazione all'università Roma Tre.
La registrazione completa👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ht...
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
L'ultimo Rapporto Povertà di Caritas Italiana ospita anche un mio saggio, con Giacomo Gabbuti.
Parliamo delle disuguaglianze esistenti e del come e perché occuparsene. Felici di aver ospitato la presentazione all'università Roma Tre.
La registrazione completa👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ht...
Parliamo delle disuguaglianze esistenti e del come e perché occuparsene. Felici di aver ospitato la presentazione all'università Roma Tre.
La registrazione completa👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ht...
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My colleagues are organizing a workshop on
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
AI and Economics - ICMS
Workshop Template
icms.ac.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My colleagues are organizing a workshop on
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
*AI for economic research*
next March.
Paper submission is open now!
icms.ac.uk/activities/w...
[Music] My new piano composition Cité is out now and available on Spotify ☺️
Cover art: Fabio Ranaldi
Sound engineering: Beatrice Balagna
Production: Elena Butti
Cover art: Fabio Ranaldi
Sound engineering: Beatrice Balagna
Production: Elena Butti
Cité
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
[Music] My new piano composition Cité is out now and available on Spotify ☺️
Cover art: Fabio Ranaldi
Sound engineering: Beatrice Balagna
Production: Elena Butti
Cover art: Fabio Ranaldi
Sound engineering: Beatrice Balagna
Production: Elena Butti
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Our speaker this week is @robertoiacono.org (NTNU), who is currently visiting our Department of Economics @unipisa.bsky.social and presents "Capital and Labor Income Mobility", joint with @marcoranaldi.bsky.social and @joelliambuehler.bsky.social . www.ec.unipi.it/eventi/rober... #econsky #seminar
Roberto Iacono (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): Capital and Labor Income Mobility - Dipartimento di Economia e Management
Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025, at 2:30 pm Venue: Room Bruguier Pacini, DEM + Online via Teams Speaker: Roberto Iacono…Leggi tutto...
www.ec.unipi.it
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Our speaker this week is @robertoiacono.org (NTNU), who is currently visiting our Department of Economics @unipisa.bsky.social and presents "Capital and Labor Income Mobility", joint with @marcoranaldi.bsky.social and @joelliambuehler.bsky.social . www.ec.unipi.it/eventi/rober... #econsky #seminar
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social
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Does #equality promote #inclusion and #productivity, or hinder #growth❓
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 - WID - World Inequality Database
Equality and Development: A Comparative & Historical Perspective 1800-2025 This paper combines income and wealth inequality series from the World Inequality Database (WID) and new global series on hou...
wid.world
October 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Does #equality promote #inclusion and #productivity, or hinder #growth❓
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
🔴Our new study revisits this long-running debate — finding a strong positive link between equality and development over the long run.
Read more▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Reposted by Marco Ranaldi
📢 Event Announcement!
Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop.
We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby!
✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12
Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop.
We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby!
✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12
12th London Inequality Workshop
The London Inequality Workshop brings together researchers studying economic inequality, based in and around London.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
📢 Event Announcement!
Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop.
We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby!
✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12
Join us on December 3rd afternoon at King’s College London for our upcoming London Inequality Workshop.
We’ll have three excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby!
✅ Planning to attend? Please register here: tinyurl.com/LINWorkshop12
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Two points missing in recent Wealth Tax debates:
- If we measure total taxes as a % of wealth (not income), the system is highly regressive
- The wealthiest pay 3%-4% of their wealth annually in taxes. Wealth Tax shouldn't be seen as starting from zero (see US data from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social)
- If we measure total taxes as a % of wealth (not income), the system is highly regressive
- The wealthiest pay 3%-4% of their wealth annually in taxes. Wealth Tax shouldn't be seen as starting from zero (see US data from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social)
October 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Two points missing in recent Wealth Tax debates:
- If we measure total taxes as a % of wealth (not income), the system is highly regressive
- The wealthiest pay 3%-4% of their wealth annually in taxes. Wealth Tax shouldn't be seen as starting from zero (see US data from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social)
- If we measure total taxes as a % of wealth (not income), the system is highly regressive
- The wealthiest pay 3%-4% of their wealth annually in taxes. Wealth Tax shouldn't be seen as starting from zero (see US data from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social)
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Two weeks! Apply by Nov. 3 to our postdoctoral scholars program. Two positions starting in Aug. 2026: one focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Learn more at the link below!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
Applications are open for our postdoctoral scholars program! These 2-year positions start in Aug. 2026 and are based at the GC CUNY Stone Center. One is focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Apply by Nov. 3!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
bit.ly/40TZR6J
Applications Are Open for Two Postdoctoral Positions at the GC CUNY Stone Center - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for an eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.
stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Two weeks! Apply by Nov. 3 to our postdoctoral scholars program. Two positions starting in Aug. 2026: one focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Learn more at the link below!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
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🚨Public service announcement:🚨
Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3,
incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar.
Get your free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reference-...
& your copy of the book here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3,
incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar.
Get your free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reference-...
& your copy of the book here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Reference Point
Reference Point is a Library, Bookshop and Bar in 180 Strand with a focus on democratising rare and inaccessible visual literature serving as a collaborative space for London's creative community. RP…
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October 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🚨Public service announcement:🚨
Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3,
incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar.
Get your free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reference-...
& your copy of the book here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Only 2 weeks until the official launch event for "The means of prediction" on Nov 3,
incl discussion with Noam Yuchtman, music, and bar.
Get your free tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/reference-...
& your copy of the book here:
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Pleased to see our new paper finally out!
Together with joël bühler and Roberto Iacono, we study income mobility dynamics in Norway using 26 years of high-quality register data.
Main result: upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income — and almost never by capital alone. (1/4)
Together with joël bühler and Roberto Iacono, we study income mobility dynamics in Norway using 26 years of high-quality register data.
Main result: upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income — and almost never by capital alone. (1/4)
Do individuals move ⤴️ or⤵️ the income ladder because of jumps in labor or capital income, or both?
👉Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone, find @marcoranaldi.bsky.social @joelliambuehler.bsky.social @robertoiacono.org
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
👉Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone, find @marcoranaldi.bsky.social @joelliambuehler.bsky.social @robertoiacono.org
▶️ wid.world/news-article...
Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone - WID - World Inequality Database
Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone This paper studies the dynamics of capital and labor income mobility using high-quality register data from Norway.
wid.world
October 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Pleased to see our new paper finally out!
Together with joël bühler and Roberto Iacono, we study income mobility dynamics in Norway using 26 years of high-quality register data.
Main result: upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income — and almost never by capital alone. (1/4)
Together with joël bühler and Roberto Iacono, we study income mobility dynamics in Norway using 26 years of high-quality register data.
Main result: upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income — and almost never by capital alone. (1/4)
Reposted by Marco Ranaldi
August 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The real job market prep is learning to explain why your research matters in under 30 seconds to someone who’s looking at their phone
July 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The real job market prep is learning to explain why your research matters in under 30 seconds to someone who’s looking at their phone
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Great post by @brankomilan.bsky.social on Compositional vs. Income Ineq, highlighting @marcoranaldi.bsky.social's role in developing this novel concept. Regarding the high CI in the Nordics, @elisapalagi.bsky.social & I in our BEJEAP paper (doi.org/10.1515/beje...) have another interpretation..(1/n)
July 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Great post by @brankomilan.bsky.social on Compositional vs. Income Ineq, highlighting @marcoranaldi.bsky.social's role in developing this novel concept. Regarding the high CI in the Nordics, @elisapalagi.bsky.social & I in our BEJEAP paper (doi.org/10.1515/beje...) have another interpretation..(1/n)
Just read @brankomilan.bsky.social's latest on income & compositional inequality. One more point: if AI pushes up the capital share by replacing jobs across skill levels, reducing compositional inequality can help capital complement labor—and prevent income inequality from rising👇
New Capitalism II:
Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...
Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...
New Capitalism II: Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
branko2f7.substack.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Just read @brankomilan.bsky.social's latest on income & compositional inequality. One more point: if AI pushes up the capital share by replacing jobs across skill levels, reducing compositional inequality can help capital complement labor—and prevent income inequality from rising👇
Reposted by Marco Ranaldi
My today's Substack:
New Capitalism in America
Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...
New Capitalism in America
Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...
New Capitalism in America
Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
branko2f7.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:54 AM
My today's Substack:
New Capitalism in America
Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...
New Capitalism in America
Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people
branko2f7.substack.com/p/new-capita...
New essay from my month at @ieadeparis.bsky.social where I explore compositional inequality in K and L and its links to capitalism’s big challenges (climate, politics, technology, inequality). Plus, a fresh take on Michal Kalecki’s full-employment argument:
paris.pias.science/article/capi...
paris.pias.science/article/capi...
July 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
New essay from my month at @ieadeparis.bsky.social where I explore compositional inequality in K and L and its links to capitalism’s big challenges (climate, politics, technology, inequality). Plus, a fresh take on Michal Kalecki’s full-employment argument:
paris.pias.science/article/capi...
paris.pias.science/article/capi...
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📢We're hiring: Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics & Business.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced & skilled educator to specialise in the teaching and assessment of Economics & Business with a focus on Eastern European countries.
Apply by 21 July
See more: bit.ly/4l9L4wA
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced & skilled educator to specialise in the teaching and assessment of Economics & Business with a focus on Eastern European countries.
Apply by 21 July
See more: bit.ly/4l9L4wA
July 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
📢We're hiring: Lecturer (Teaching) in Economics & Business.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced & skilled educator to specialise in the teaching and assessment of Economics & Business with a focus on Eastern European countries.
Apply by 21 July
See more: bit.ly/4l9L4wA
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced & skilled educator to specialise in the teaching and assessment of Economics & Business with a focus on Eastern European countries.
Apply by 21 July
See more: bit.ly/4l9L4wA
Thrilled to have visited Siegen this week—discussed my joint work with @brankomilan.bsky.social with MA students and presented my current research with Roberto Iacono & Joël Bühler on capital and labor income mobility (paper out soon). Thanks a lot, @svenjafl.bsky.social, for the kind invitation!
So great to have @marcoranaldi.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk visiting us in Siegen this week!
The visit in a master's seminar and Marco's talk in our research seminar were both very engaging and insightful. We had interesting debates on capital and labor income mobility. Thank you so much, Marco!
The visit in a master's seminar and Marco's talk in our research seminar were both very engaging and insightful. We had interesting debates on capital and labor income mobility. Thank you so much, Marco!
July 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Thrilled to have visited Siegen this week—discussed my joint work with @brankomilan.bsky.social with MA students and presented my current research with Roberto Iacono & Joël Bühler on capital and labor income mobility (paper out soon). Thanks a lot, @svenjafl.bsky.social, for the kind invitation!
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
🚨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.
wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
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.
wid.world
June 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
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Rethinking how the state imagined, practiced and evaluated is at the heart of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social's mission. Join us for our annual #RethinkingTheState Forum (18-20 June).
Learn more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Learn more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
May 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Rethinking how the state imagined, practiced and evaluated is at the heart of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social's mission. Join us for our annual #RethinkingTheState Forum (18-20 June).
Learn more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Learn more ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Reposted by Marco Ranaldi
For the first time ever, China's CO₂ emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, rather than reduced power demand.
May 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
For the first time ever, China's CO₂ emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, rather than reduced power demand.
Distributional varieties of capitalism through the conceptualization and measurement of compositional inequality. What do we know, and what’s next?
New open-access paper out now in ROPE👇
Link: shorturl.at/WDT20
New open-access paper out now in ROPE👇
Link: shorturl.at/WDT20
May 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Distributional varieties of capitalism through the conceptualization and measurement of compositional inequality. What do we know, and what’s next?
New open-access paper out now in ROPE👇
Link: shorturl.at/WDT20
New open-access paper out now in ROPE👇
Link: shorturl.at/WDT20