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Chrystia Freeland: The rise of the new global super-rich, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6NKdnZvdoo
Time 15:24
Technology is advancing in leaps and bounds—and so is economic inequality, says writer Chrystia Freeland. In an impassioned talk, she charts the rise of a new class of plutocrats (those who are extremely powerful because they are extremely wealthy) and suggests that globalization and new technology are actually fuelling, rather than closing, the global income gap. Freeland lays out three problems with plutocracy and one glimmer of hope.
Economic Growth and Inequality (Joseph Stiglitz), 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8N-JdaNa5Y
Time: 8:50
This short video featuring Joseph Stiglitz discusses the relationship between economic growth and inequality.
Gary Haugen: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsncCF9O_U
Time 22:06
Collective compassion has meant an overall decrease in global poverty since the 1980s, says civil rights lawyer Gary Haugen. Yet for all the world’s aid money, there is a pervasive hidden problem keeping poverty alive. Haugen reveals the dark underlying cause we must recognize and act on now.
How economic inequality harms societies, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ7LzE3u7Bw
Time 16:54
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
Inequality: Lessons for Development, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdhVMCyDxgI
Time: 2:16
What does the last decade of research at United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) tell us about inequality?
"Inequality, poverty and global development " with Prof Stefan Dercon, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3n2rdVCotM
Time: 1:33:36
Across the developing world, poverty has been decreasing, but unevenly, and inequality is increasingly identified as a serious burden on development. In this lecture, Stefan Dercon will reflect on these contrasting views: how they view the causes of poverty, what to do about it and how inequality fits into these views. In particular, he will explore the role of inequality as a cause of poverty persistence, and how to overcome this. The implications for development thinking and policy will be discussed too.
New insights on poverty, Hans Rosling, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKbO6O3O3M
Time 20:54
Researcher Hans Rosling uses his data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing.
Robert Putnam on Inequality and Opportunity, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACve-N_6KJc
Time 6:56
Robert Putnam explores the cultural and economic factors that are contributing to the persistence of inequality and asks: what can be done to address the widening “opportunity gap.” In this excerpt from the event “Closing the Opportunity Gap,” distinguished political scientist, Professor Robert Putnam shares the key insights from this work, explores the cultural and economic factors that are contributing to the persistence of inequality, and considers what practically can be done to address the widening “opportunity gap.”
The Costs of Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYHT4zJsCdo
Time 16:11
Joseph Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, the winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and a lead author of the 1995 IPCC report, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He is also the co-chair of Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank from 1997-2000. Stiglitz received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the American economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution in the field. He is the author most recently of The Price of Inequality. In 2011, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
The Political Economy of Inequality, Mobility and Redistribution, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UulV9y0oE04
Time: 5:21
Ignacio P. Campomanes is Resident Fellow at the Navarra Center for International Development. In this new paper he studies how the interaction between inequality and social mobility affects the choice of fiscal policy. Using a sample of 72 countries during the period 1960-2015, the results show that there is a positive relation between market inequality and the level of redistribution only when social mobility is relatively high.