The Global Democratic Deficit: Undemocratic international institutions favor powerful countries—they secure power in the international system at a very cheap cost and chose who benefits from aid 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with @PaulaDruschke 1/6 wid.world/news-Mostrar mais

New paper on wid.world by @gatonievas & @PaulaDruschke finds that 70% of World Bank and IMF funds are allocated to G7 geopolitically aligned countries.

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Militaristic drift, admission of weakness The militaristic drift of the United States resonates above all as a terrible admission of weakness in the face of the financial, commercial and political fragility of the country thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/mil...Mostrar mais

Dérive militariste, aveu de faiblesse La dérive militariste des Etats-Unis résonne comme un terrible aveu de faiblesse face à la fragilité financière, commerciale et politique du pays thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/der...

Congrats Bernie Sanders & Ro Khanna for this new bill proposing a 5% federal wealth tax on billionaires Together with upcoming California wealth tax referendum to fund public health care, this is putting the US back at the center of global justice debate www.sanders.sMostrar mais

New on inequalitylab.world Prosperity within Limits? Planetary Habitability, Global Convergence & Structural Transformation 2026-2100 More to come in the Global Justice Report World Inequality Conference Paris June 4-6 2026 wid.world/document/prosperity-withMostrar mais

Quand la France invente la ségrégation extrême, financée par l'argent public: la part des enfants de 6e scolarisés dans le privé atteint 39% à Paris en 2025, avec des écarts hallucinants entre classes sociales www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2026/03/03/...Mostrar mais

Europe, a social-democratic power To win the cultural and intellectual battle, Europe must now assert its values and defend its model of development, fundamentally opposed to the nationalist-extractivist model of Trump and Putin thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/euMostrar mais

L'Europe, puissance sociale-démocrate Pour gagner la bataille culturelle et intellectuelle, il est temps que l’Europe affirme ses valeurs et défende haut et fort son modèle de développement, opposé en tous points au modèle nationaliste-extractiviste thomaspiketty.wordpMostrar mais

L'Europe a une productivité égale ou supérieure au niveau US depuis des décennies, grâce aux investissements dans la formation, la santé et les infrastructures. Il faut sortir de l'auto-dénigrement & investir davantage! prod.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2025/10/Wo...Mostrar mais

New EQUALS episode is out ft @PikettyWIL Financial flows to north from south now exceed 1% of global GDP — more than all development aid. Piketty explains how debt & reserve currencies favour the North and what could actually change it. 🎧 Tune in: www.equals.inkMostrar mais

Project 2025: from nightmare to reality To better understand what made the Trump shock possible, and how to confront it in the future, we must turn to its roots, namely, to Project 2025 thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/pro...

Project 2025, du cauchemar à la réalité Pour mieux comprendre ce qui a rendu possible le choc Trump et comment y faire face à l’avenir, il faut commencer par revenir aux sources, c’est-à-dire au Project 2025 thomaspiketty.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/pro...Mostrar mais

You can read the World Inequality Report 2026 in 10 different languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Thai Spread the world and join the global fight for equality! wir2026.wid.world/download/

Moralité: si l'Europe ne sort pas urgemment du régime de sacralisation de la propriété privée et de libre-échange absolu mis en place dans les 1990s, on ne pourra jamais résoudre les défis géopolitiques, sociaux, industriels et climatiques du 21e siècle www.lemonde.fr/lesMostrar mais

One week left to submit to the Call for Papers for the World Inequality Conference 2026, which will take place at the Paris School of Economics on June 4–5, 2026 Click here for the details: inequalitylab.world/en/event/world-inequal...

C'est bien de verser une larme sur la taxe foncière... ce serait encore mieux de rappeler que la TF est passée de 30 à 50 milliards € de 2010 à 2025... c'est dommage d'avoir refusé l'impôt de 2% sur les ultrariches (20 milliards) www.impots.gouv.fr/statistiques-impots-locMostrar mais

Today, I joined 500+ researchers from 70 countries in calling on world leaders to create an International Panel on Inequality modelled after the IPCC— as recommended by the G20 Committee on Inequality led by @JosephEStiglitz. Help us spread the call. 🔗wid.world/news-artMostrar mais

Le Pen’s RN has become the party of billionaires By voting to save the ultra-rich, the RN has clearly positioned itself as the party of billionaires, as a right-wing party on every level, much like Trump’s Republican Party wp.me/pgT76t-BT