The Future of Inequality: Low Growth, Oligarchic Redistribution, and the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The dramatic increase in inequality in advanced capitalist countries is closely related to decl

Urban Studies, DOI: 10.1177/0042098012458549 This paper provides evidence of segregation-generated differences in political recruitment. Focusing on social-geographical differentiation in the urban lan

Katalys in cooperation with the Institute for Futures Studies and ABF Stockholm invite you to a lecture by political scientist and Professor Keith Banting of Queen's University, Canada. Professor Keith

Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School. ABSTRACT Eight people now own as much wealth as the 3.6 billion people who constitute the poorer 50% of humanity. How did we g

Taking social-geographical differentiation in the urban landscape into account, this paper provides evidence of segregation-generated differences in political recruitment networks. It is found that ac

The new inequality and the redistributive politics that disappeared

Professor Keith Banting har studerat den nya ojämlikheten i Kanada – framförallt dess politiska inramning och vilken betydelse den har för fördelningspolitiken. Han lyfter tre förståelser av den växan

Gianluca Manzo, Sociology Sorbonne Status hierarchies have the characteristic of being increasingly asymmetric distributions that, however, never turn into winner-take-all structures. In this paper we

This paper addresses the questions of whether immigration and domestic migration contribute to changes in wage inequality over time, and if so, which parts of the income distribution these changes are

Many things that we deeply care about are related to the topic of religion: gender norms, sexual morals, work ethics but also altruism, charity and community. It is therefore an important question to Contrary to what you might expect, religion continues to play an important role in countries all over the world, as the figure shows.

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Olle Hammar, Ph.D. in Economics and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. RegistIn this paper, we introduce novel estimates of wealth inequality, integrating the standard household wealth concept with newly assessed individual human capital. Using microdata and national accounts from numerous countries since 2000, we explore the distribution across age, gender, education, and occupation. Our analysis reveals two key findings: 1) human capital is more evenly distributed than financial capital, and 2) total wealth, the sum of human and financial capital, is significantly more equal than financial wealth alone. This study offers a groundbreaking perspective on global wealth dynamics, emphasizing the critical, yet often overlooked, role of human capital in wealth distribution.