Lucas Chancel is an economist, specialized in inequality and in environmental policy. His work focuses on the measurement of economic inequality, its interactions with sustainable development and on the implementation of social and ecological policies.
Lucas is Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris Scool of Economics (PSE) and Affiliate Professor at Sciences Po. He is also a an Associate Researcher at PSE and at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, as well as Senior Advisor at the European Tax Observatory.
The World Inequality Report 2022 provides the most up-to-date data on global income and wealth inequalities and presents new findings on global gender and climate change inequalities.
“Read this report, shout out its messages, find ways to act upon them.” Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
Published in English by Harvard University Press, in French by Le Seuil. Available open access online.
More information [Release on 7 December 2021]
Selection of best books in economics – Financial Times
Selection of best science books – Nature magazine
“Essential” – Science magazine
“An original perspective on the two greatest challenges of our times” – Martin Wolf, Financial Times
“An absolute must read” – Thomas Piketty
Data and analysis on global income and wealth inequalities. Book published in 10 languages.
Presentation of the World Inequality Report 2022 at the World Inequality Conference. Full programme here.
Conference at the World Bank IMF Spring Meetings.
Book launch of “Unsustainable Inequalities” (Harvard University Press, 2020) at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics. See here.
Interview in Le Monde on taxation, inequalities and social policies in a post-covid world, see here.
Interview for the launch of the World Inequality Report 2022.