Marco Ranaldi

New paper on the capitalization of the world, together with @brankomilan.bsky.social, out today! A short thread follows below 👇

This year's Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality featured a keynote lecture by @janetgornick.bsky.social on the history of cross-national inequality data and research. Her inside view of the creation and development of LIS is now available on the Stone Center site.

My dear friend @miguelherdade.bsky.social just published this beautiful book about social mobility and education. It's only in Portuguese, and is essentially an immediate bestseller in Portugal, so if you can read the language - buy a copy and read it!

📢 Job alert! Our sister department - King's Business School Economics is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) Apply (and more information) here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Economists: "Let's assume away the problem". Sociologists: "Let's make the problem the paper".

Happy to see our paper on dividend tax reforms out in Fiscal Studies (@theifs.bsky.social)! On a conceptual note, dividend tax is unusual among widely used taxes: it falls heavily on the top 1% (and barely at all on the bottom 90%), while still having the potential to raise substantial revenue 1/2

Next at the @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Atkinson Conference: @janetgornick.bsky.social keynote on cross-national inequality data and the history of @lisdata.bsky.social.

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Now at the @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Atkinson Conference: Measuring Wealth & Top Incomes. Four papers on what estates reveal, why ethnic wealth gaps widen, how we compare inequality, and who receives capital income.

I've started a Substack, launching with two pieces 👇 What AI means for the future of research: 👉 marcoranaldi.substack.com/p/this-is-my... How broadening capital ownership can help us navigate the AI shift: 👉 marcoranaldi.substack.com/p/broadening... Stay tuned!

The @stone-lis.bsky.social WP series added linked papers; together, a comprehensive portrait of inequality trends: #128: Wealth Inequality Trends Around the World. #131: Is Income Inequality on the Rise Everywhere? Both also posted at @lisdata.bsky.social stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research-dat...

A new WP introduces the Wealth Inequality Trends Database of the GC Wealth Project to summarize the main findings on levels & trends in wealth inequality around the world using multiple data sources, & shows that wealth inequality has increased in about 60% of the countries analyzed. bit.ly/4vaa7Uz

New from the GC Wealth Project! Introducing a novel global database on the historical evolution of EIG taxes for more than 170 countries and all U.S. states (from 2006). Working paper by Twisha Asher, Luca Giangregorio, @morellisal.bsky.social, @schechtlm.eurosky.social & Francesca Subioli.

📢 Tomorrow! @brankomilan.bsky.social and @marcoranaldi.bsky.social map the global distribution of capital income across the 21st century, highlighting its implications for inequality analysis. Register now ⬇️

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

A small but significant victory in a massive battle to defend human rights and international law. Francesca has been vindicated even in the courts of the superpower that sanctioned her for doing her duty www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Looking forward to this!

This is happening tomorrow @UCL & online 👇

Felice di partecipare a Radio Incredibile per parlare di disuguaglianze economiche, capitale e salario, e del loro legame con le sfide della rivoluzione tecnologica di questi tempi 🌍 📅 Lunedì 11 Maggio 🕘 21:15 (ITA) YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFlK...

The GC Wealth Project, a flagship project of the GC CUNY Stone Center, presents an overview of its core work in Scientific Data. Check out this vast collection of data on wealth levels/trends/composition and more. Multiple expansions and updates coming soon! wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/index.html 👇

Publishing Social Sciences with Nature Portfolio Journals An event jointly organized by the London Inequality Network and UCL CNET 📍 UCL 🗓️ 12 May, 16:00 👉 Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...

“First, capital income is absent or negligible for most of the world population... Second, capital income is extraordinarily concentrated among a small fraction of individuals at the very top”. @brankomilan.bsky.social and @marcoranaldi.bsky.social in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

What drives the growth of private wealth? Has inequality increased? How does tax policy shape wealth across generations? Now published in Nature-Scientific Data: the data descriptor of the GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse by @stone-lis.bsky.social & Roma Tre University www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What is the role of capital ownership in shaping global economic inequality? @brankomilan.bsky.social and @marcoranaldi.bsky.social show that capital income has expanded rapidly around the world but remains concentrated among a small fraction of individuals at the very top. #LSEInequalitiesBlog

A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This is happening today at 4!

📣 Event Announcement! Join us on Wednesday, March 25 at 16:00 at Imperial Business School for the next London Inequality Workshop. We'll have four excellent speakers, followed by informal drinks nearby. More details below 👇

Delighted to be part of this panel on global inequality at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference (RES 2026) in Newcastle on 6 July — if you are attending the conference, do join us for the session!

📣 New III working paper by @brankomilan.bsky.social and @marcoranaldi.bsky.social They provide new global evidence on the evolution, distribution, and measurement of capital income, and the implications for inequality analysis in contemporary capitalism. 🔗 buff.ly/HHadHIv

The GC CUNY Stone Center is excited to announce our two newly selected postdoctoral scholars, Jasmine Simington and Chris Pulliam! They will start their two-year appointments at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social in August. Welcome, Jasmine and Chris!

Don't miss the next London Inequality Workshop! Details below!

The world may be “capitalizing,” but for many, property income remains a mirage. Our hidden gem of the week reveals that although capital income inequality has declined, ownership remains exclusive. By @brankomilan.bsky.social & @marcoranaldi.bsky.social at @stone-lis.bsky.social buff.ly/m5XkTf6

In our next #ComplexityEconomics seminar on 4 March @oecd-ocde.bsky.social's Peter Gal will be talking about the macroeconomic productivity gains from AI across the globe. Online and in person www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/mirac...

[WID.world update] Our R and Stata tools are now upgraded to support larger downloads (database grew fast and some workflows were failing). New releases are live on CRAN (R) and SSC (Stata). Previous fails with Java-related errors should now run. Problems? stats@wid.world @wid.world

If you think of the Earth as of an ongoing enterprise where some people receive income without working but just from ownership of Earth's land resources and produced capital, how concentrated is such income? Have many people receive nothing from the Earth, its resources and its capital?

On social tables & their methodology.

The end of a long period of decreasing global inequality? Concept 3 is Gini between world citizens calculated from some 110+ representative national household surveys with incomes of individuals expressed in PPP dollars.

🚨 We're hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics Only 5 days left to apply. See details 👇

If you’re looking for some holiday reading, my new book — Clearing the Air — is on offer at £1.99 on Kindle for the next 24 hours. Hope you enjoy! www.amazon.co.uk/Clearing-Air...

Today, we are publishing our World Inequality Report, which reviews the most recent #inequalitydata and exposes the magnitude of #inequality across time, space and all its dimensions. 👇Share this thread, share the report! www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67u...

My paper with Shlomo Yitzhaki whose work and life we shall celebrate on May 20, 2026 at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Decomposing World Income Distribution: Does the World Have a Middle Class? Review of Income & Wealth, 2002. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Podcast on my @politybooks.bsky.social book, in St Andrews splendid @rbpodcast.bsky.social series. I discuss the links between classical liberty and P. Aghion's Schumpeterian theory, and pick from M. Wolf's and @brankomilan.bsky.social's reform programmes www.intellectualhistory.net/roots-and-br...

South Africa remains the most unequal country in the world, with the top 10% earning 70% of all pretax income. New study by A. Gethin & L. Czajka shows that inequality in 2019 was as high as in 1993. Racial inequality reduced only because top 10% Black incomes surged. ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

Checking off your pre-🎄to-do list? Don’t forget to submit your paper to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! 🗓️ 5–8 May 2026 | 📍 University of Bristol School of Economics 🔗 www.baem.info Send us your best work!

Great having you with us, Salvatore! Your impressive work on inheritance and wealth inequality, from the collection of new data and stylised facts to methodological innovations that improve its measurement, will, I am sure, continue to profoundly influence the inequality debate in the years to come!

Happening today!