Filippos PapasavvasApr 2, 2023Who is most at risk of homelessness in the UK?Bramley and Fitzpatrick (2018) investigate the impact of different factors in driving people to homelessness in the UK, and they refute...
Filippos PapasavvasFeb 5, 2022What is the source of the wealth of Russia’s billionaires?The Treisman (2016) paper analyses the profile of Russia’s billionaires over the past 30 years, who are found to have diversified across...
Filippos PapasavvasFeb 5, 2022How does one measure interregional inequality, and where does the UK rank?There are many different ways of measuring interregional inequality, which can make it hard to make cross-country comparisons. The McCann...
Filippos PapasavvasFeb 5, 2022Does inequality negatively affect the entire society's work motivation?Gesiarz et al (2020) carried out three randomised control experiments to investigate the impact of reward inequality on human motivation....
Filippos PapasavvasFeb 5, 2022How do economists neglect the discipline’s ethical dimensions?Economists sometimes neglect the discipline’s ethical dimensions by 1) ignoring the distributional impact of policy and growth and 2)...
Alex WaisFeb 5, 2022Is class alliance an essential driver of inequality reduction?Former American President Barack Obama declared inequality “the defining challenge of our time.” Meanwhile, levels of inequality around...