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My work focuses on global inequality and ecological transitions.

I am a tenured Associate Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, based at the Center for Research on Social Inequalities and affiliated with the Department of Economics. I am also Co-Director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics.

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Books
Energy and inequality: A political history
Éditions du Seuil, 2025

Book published in French on 3 October 2025 (Publishing house: Le Seuil). English translation forthcoming.

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Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment
Harvard University Press, 2020

Selection of best books in economics – Financial Times

Selection of best science books – Nature

“An original perspective on the two greatest challenges of our times” – Martin Wolf, Financial Times

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World Inequality Report 2026

Report available here.

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Research articles
 
Global Inequality in Ownership Footprints Over 2000-2022
With Yannic Rehm, Nature Climate Change, 2026
 
Income and Wealth Inequality in India, 1922-2023: The Rise of the Billionaire Raj
Avec Nitin Bharti, Thomas Piketty et Anmol Somanchi, World Bank Economic Review, 2026
 
The carbon perception gap in actual and ideal carbon footprints across wealth groups
With Johanna Köchling, Julia Koller, Jana Straßheim, Yannic Rehm, Claudia Diehl, Harald Schupp, Britta Renner, Nature Communications, (16) 2025.
 
Climate Change and the Global Distribution of Wealth
With Cornelia Mohren, Philipp Bothe, Gregor Semieniuk, Nature Climate Change, 2025.
 
Accounting for the Carbon Footprint of Capital Ownership Advances the Understanding of Emission Inequality
With Yannic Rehm, Climatic Change, 2025.
 
The Potential of Wealth Taxation to Address the Triple Climate Inequality Crisis
With Philipp Bothe et Tancrède Voituriez, Nature Climate Change, 2024
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Conferences
11/3/2026
Conference at the London School of Economics

International Inequality Institute – Lunch seminar – Presentation of the World Inequality Report 2026

December 2025
Conference at Jawaharlal Nehru University and at the Center for Human Sciences, New Delhi

Presentation of Energie et inégalités: Une histoire politique and of the World Inequality Report 2026 du Rapport sur les inégalités mondiales 2026.

May 2025
Public Lecture at the Swedish Royal Academy of Science

Public lecture “Inequality and the Biosphere” organized by the Beijer Institute, at the  Swedish Royal Academy of Science. More info.

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Medias
Interview in Le Monde

On the occasion of the publication of my new book “Energie et inégalités : Une histoire politique”. Read the interview (in French): PDF.

What Strategy for Progressives in the Age of Trumpism? – Op Ed in Le Monde

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United Auto Workers strike – Op Ed in Le Monde

Link to the Op Ed (English translation)

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