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Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Rapport sur les Inégalités Mondiales 2026 […] Coordination Lucas Chancel Ricardo Gómez-Carrera (auteur principal) Rowaida Moshrif Thomas Piketty Avant-propos Jayati Ghosh Joseph E. Stiglitz

World Inequality Report 2026

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

 Luke is a research associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and has spent the past five years studying the collapse of civilisations throughout history. He joins me to explain his research, detailing the difference between complex, collective civilisations and what he calls “Goliaths”, massive centralising forces by which a small group of individuals extract wealth from the rest through domination and the threat of violence. Today, he says, we live in a global Goliath. In this astounding conversation, Luke takes us from the Ancient times to the modern day, revealing the root causes of collapse and paralleling them what we’re living through today. He explains the egalitarian nature of our species, and shines new light on what a future could look like free from today’s global Goliath. He reminds us all that we tend to view collapse through the eyes of the 1%, those who have the most to lose, and gives startling accounts of how populations bounced back after thei

We are an international group of researchers and practitioners interested in the emerging fields of post-growth and ecological macroeconomics. Our aim is to advance economic theory, methodology and policy in order to adequately address some of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change, rising inequality, and financial instability.

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Misguided policies are hurting the poorest in society; our focus should be on reducing inequality not increasing GDP

Canadian author and professor of climate justice cautiously hails loss and damage agreements at Cop27. " I think the most important thing is to just find other people. Trying to think through this by yourself is a recipe for feeling like a failure and getting dispirited very, very quickly. The benefit of being part of a broader movement is knowing that some people are doing some things, and other people are doing other things, and nobody has to do everything."

The climate crisis has begun to disrupt human societies by severely affecting the very foundations of human livelihood and social organisation. Climate impacts are not equally distributed across the world: on average, low- and middle-income countries suffer greater impacts than their richer counterparts. At the same time, the climate crisis is also marked by significant inequalities within countries. Recent research reveals a high concentration of global greenhouse gas emissions among a relatively small fraction of the population, living in emerging and rich countries. In addition, vulnerability to numerous climate impacts is strongly linked to income and wealth, not just between countries but also within them.

Report and executive summary

Capitalism isn’t what it used to be. Since 2008, critics of the world’s dominant economic system have been lamenting its imperviousness to change. And for good reason. In earlier epochs, financial crises and pandemics wrought economic transformation. In our own, they seem to have yielded more of the same. Before the 2008 crash, global capitalism was characterized by organized labor’s weakness, rising inequality within nations, and a growth model that offset mediocre wage gains with asset-price appreciation. All of these have remained features of the world’s economic order.

Un nouveau rapport du World Inequality Lab (WIR 2022) montre que les personnes les plus riches libèrent de plus grandes quantités de dioxyde de carbone que les personnes à moyens et faibles revenus

Selon les calculs du World Inequality Lab, le patrimoine est très inégalement réparti sur la planète. Exemple le plus extrême : les 1% des personnes les plus riches possèdent près de deux fois plus que les 90% des plus pauvres.

Le rapport 2022 sur les inégalités du World Inequality Lab, publié mardi, souligne que les ultra-riches ont énormément profité de la crise sanitaire du Covid-19, qui a creusé encore davantage les inégalités de patrimoine. Pour y remédier, les économistes ayant participé à l'étude, dont Lucas Chancel et Thomas Piketty, proposent une imposition progressive du patrimoine à l'échelle mondiale.