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Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity (AFSEE) @afsee-lse.bsky.social · 5h

Not just lines on a map: borders in a changing world 🌎

Join us on Thursday for an important conversation on borders with Maya Goodfellow, Luke de Noronha, and Tarsis Brito.

📅 Thursday 9 October, 6:30-8:00 pm
📌 Old Theatre & online
🔗 Register here: afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/events...

Not just lines on a map: borders in a changing world

In this panel discussion we will be joined by Maya Goodfellow, Tarsis Brito, and Luke de Noronha who will each draw on their areas of expertise to discuss the implications of borders in a changing wor...

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 3h

📣 New special issue in the Journal of Economic Inequality on inequality perceptions and fairness judgments:

This collection of papers focuses on the core issues of individual and social preferences in the field of inequality.

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Measuring distributional preferences: opportunities and challenges - The Journal of Economic Inequality

This article introduces, and puts in context, the fourteen papers in the special issue, "Inequality perceptions and fairness judgments."

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 6h

In a new study, Christopher Hoy (World Bank) reveals that people tend to dramatically underestimate wage inequality.

What’s more, when confronted with the actual data, far right voters alter their views about redistribution the most.

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

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The wage gap and far-right support for redistribution

New study on beliefs and preferences about the wage gap (CEOs vs average worker). When the true gap is revealed, far right voters change their policy views most.

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Submit your paper to the @bjsociology.bsky.social 2026 Conference!

The BJS conference will showcase cutting-edge research across Sociology, providing a platform to discuss the most exciting developments in the field.

Submit your abstract by Monday 20 October 2025.

www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...

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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 7d

The research video for our book Born to Rule (made by the brilliant Maayan Arad) is a Finalist for a Lovie Award. It’s now down to a public vote so please have a watch and, if you like it, vote for us! vote.lovieawards.com/PublicVoting... @lsesociology.bsky.social @lseinequalities.bsky.social

The People's Lovie Awards needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a People's Lovie Awards. You should too.

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lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · 1d

📣 This week, Prof Kirsten Sehnbruch @lseinequalities.bsky.social will discuss how and why the Capability Approach is suitable for thinking about the capabilities that employment conditions can generate for individual workers.

📆 Join us on Thursday 9 Oct, 1.00pm-2.30pm

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Department of Social Policy | seminar series | global research on social policy topics

The International Social and Public Policy seminar series presents cutting-edge research on global social policy topics.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 1d

Using simple agent-based models, Jean-Paul Faguet shows that even in the absence of structural differences, random market dynamics can generate extreme inequality. Yet modest, realistic taxes and transfers can restore balance.

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Register online: buff.ly/Oa9lJJm

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 1d

We were delighted to host LSE's annual Black History Month event examining the legacy of the 1985 Broadwater Farm uprising and the Tottenham 3 case.

Our panel explored the legal battles, community activism, and resistance movements which emerged from this.

Watch the recording: buff.ly/j9CcJik

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 1d

What happened to household wealth in the pandemic and what has that meant for wealth inequality?

Join us this Wednesday to discuss wealth in Britain with Polly Toynbee, @mikesavagelse.bsky.social, @mollybroome.bsky.social and David Willetts

Tickets here⬇️
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Event graphic details:
Snakes and ladders: The shifting sands of wealth in Britain

Wednesday 8 October 2025
9:30 am - 10:45 am

Speakers:
Polly Toynbee, Journalist and Writer
Professor Mike Savage, Professorial Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute
Molly Broome, Senior Economist at the Resolution Foundation
Lord David Willetts, President of the Resolution Foundation

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 4d

Traditional ways of tracking social mobility – how much people move up or down the income ladder – have several limitations.

Sebastian Königs and Javier Terrero Dávila (@oecdsocial.bsky.social) address these in our latest blog post.

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

Who climbs the income ladder? New evidence from tax records

Using surveys to track short-term social mobility – how much people move up or down the income ladder – has limitations. How can using administrative data help?

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 5d

Upcoming event:

Professor John Chalcraft launches his new book 'From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization'.

The book presents a new theory which can link together diverse popular struggles amid the crises of the contemporary world.

This event launches Professor John Chalcraft's new book, From Subordination to Revolution: A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 7d

📣 Join us TODAY for LSE's annual Black History Month event!

We explore the legal, political and community-based racial justice work that emerged 40 years ago from the Broadwater Farm riots, and the present-day methods of resistance it inspired.

There is still time to register 👇
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Racism and racial justice | Broadwater Farm uprising

6.30pm Weds 1 Oct | Sharon Grant, Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Roxana Willis | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 7d

Upcoming III seminar:

Mobarak Hossain (lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social) examines the relationship between 'modernization' as part of broader structural changes and intergenerational educational mobility during the twentieth century.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Coming up tomorrow:
Join a special screening of the film 'From Where We Stand', an authentic portrait of Northern England post-Brexit.

The film will be introduced by Adrian Favell, and followed by a Q&A with Mike Savage and the filmmaker Lucy Kaye.

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From Where We Stand and the Northern Exposure project on race, nation and disaffection in the North of England after Brexit

Join us for the screening of 'From where we stand', followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker Lucy Kaye.

www.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 8d

In our latest blog, Javier Terrero Dávila (@oecdsocial.bsky.social) asks how much income mobility do different countries exhibit?

And how does it vary across different groups relating to age, gender, education and where people live?

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Who climbs the income ladder? New evidence from tax records

Using surveys to track short-term social mobility – how much people move up or down the income ladder – has limitations. How can using administrative data help?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 10d

“Why don't we have more of a political response to rising inequality in recent decades? Why are the redistributive policies that we could expect not being implemented?”

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social answers these questions in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Global inequality in historical perspective: Part 2

Thomas Piketty asks: what investment in education, health & infrastructure could move us to more equal global economy by 2100? What are the political obstacles?

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 11d

“We find that mobile internet access widens the urban-rural wealth gap and magnifies inequality across educational lines”
– @neillee.bsky.social Zhiwu Wei & Yohan Iddawela in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 11d

Thomas Piketty (@PikettyWIL) notes the impressive rise in productivity that has accompanied the pickup in equality in rich countries – and debunks claims of a large productivity “gap” between the US and Europe today #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Global inequality in historical perspective: Part 1

Thomas Piketty describes rich countries' big reduction in income inequality since 1900 and debunks claims of a large productivity gap” between US & Europe today

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 12d

You can now listen to all episodes of 'Talking about Wealth' - the first series of Antisocial Economics!

In this series, Sarah Kerr (@wealtherty.bsky.social) explores the links between wealth, poverty and power with leading academics and campaigners.

Listen now 👇

Antisocial Economics

What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 12d

40 years ago, Tottenham's Broadwater Farm Estate became the site of one of Britain's most significant moments of civil disobedience.

Join us on 1 October as we explore the legal, political and community-based racial justice work which emerged from these events.

Register now 👇

Racism and racial justice | Broadwater Farm uprising

6.30pm Weds 1 Oct | Sharon Grant, Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Roxana Willis | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social · 22d

We're delighted to have Colombia’s first Afro-Colombian Vice President, Francia Elena Márquez Mina, speak at LSE.

She will discuss her rise to political prominence. She will be joined by @robtelneajai.bsky.social and Kandya Obezo-Casseres.

More info 👇
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#BlackHistoryMonth

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 13d

There is enormous inequality between countries today. Thomas Piketty (@thomaspiketty.bsky.social) asks: what investment in education, health & infrastructure could move us to more equal global economy by 2100? What are the political obstacles?

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

Global inequality in historical perspective: Part 2

Thomas Piketty asks: what investment in education, health & infrastructure could move us to more equal global economy by 2100? What are the political obstacles?

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 13d

In this summary of historical trends, @thomaspiketty.bsky.social argues that rich countries (esp. in Europe) have seen big reductions in income inequality since 1900, in contrast to Latin America & Sub-Saharan Africa #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Read it here 👇

Global inequality in historical and comparative perspective: Part 1 - LSE Inequalities

Thomas Piketty describes rich countries' big reduction in income inequality since 1900 and debunks claims of a large productivity gap” between US & Europe today

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 15d

We are excited for the start of this term's Inequalities Seminar Series!

In our first seminar, @katymorris.bsky.social explores the effects of income misperceptions on inequality beliefs and preferences.

🎟️ Attend in-person: buff.ly/VGrS38l
💻 Attend online: buff.ly/U7CxSmD

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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open!

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE.

📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

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