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The Annual Hicks Lecture 2023: Income Inequality as Sufficient Statistic: Poster Child of All Social Ills. Or Whipping Boy?'
Many social challenges have been said recently to reflect the deep inequalities in society. Observers have hypothesised, for instance that, as just one example, the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the poor becoming even poorer. However, as a matter of logic, this immiserisation of those already poor is independent of the existence of the rich. What hobbles someone’s fight against the coronavirus is their resource-inadequacy, not the fact that someone else in society happens to have more than they do. This paper argues that, outside of zero-sum games, income inequality is no sufficient statistic, and its causality for social ills suspect. The paper develops evidence that suggests the reason inequality matters in the public perception is not rational but, instead, simply correlated noise, i.e., a bubble.
Date:
27 February 2023, 17:30
Venue:
Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Professor Danny Quah (Singapore )
Organising department:
Department of Economics
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-annual-hicks-lecture-2023-professor-danny-quah-tickets-528309336447
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Emma Heritage
