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UE485 - Inequality
Lieu et planning
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48 bd Jourdan
48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
1er semestre / hebdomadaire, mardi 13:00-17:00
du 7 septembre 2021 au 30 novembre 2021
Description
Dernière modification : 19 mai 2022 11:05
- Type d'UE
- Séminaires DE/MC
- Disciplines
- Économie
- Page web
- -
- Langues
- anglais
- Mots-clés
- Économie politique Inégalités Patrimoine
- Aires culturelles
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Intervenant·e·s
- Facundo Alvaredo [référent·e] maître de conférences, EHESS / Paris School of Economics (PJSE)
The objectives of the course are: (i) to critically discuss a number of recent developments in the field of economic inequality (of income and wealth) and distribution studies; (ii) to study the concepts of inequality, capital, and commodity as they have evolved with the progress of Economic Science; (iii) as a necessary step to understand the concept of inequality, to study the principles of the current process of capital differentiation (in articulation with the planning and appropriation of the production of innovations -a human capability) to conclude that what we observe today is a process of centralization that does not presuppose the formal ownership of assets.
After the end of the course, students will have the possibility of continuing the study of the topics proposed by joining the Research Seminar "The Challenges of Contemporary Capitalism and the Political Economy Project" (en français "Capitalisme contemporain et le projet original de l’Économie Politique").
For more information see:
https://history.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/events/discussion-groups/
https://history.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/evenements/groupes-de-discussion/
Master
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Séminaires de recherche
– Économie appliquée - Politiques publiques et développement
– M2/S3
Suivi et validation – semestriel hebdomadaire = 4 ECTS
MCC – Essays -
Séminaires de recherche
– Migrations
– M2/S3
Suivi et validation – semestriel hebdomadaire = 4 ECTS
MCC – Essay
Renseignements
- Contacts additionnels
- master-ppd@psemail.eu
- Informations pratiques
Campus Jourdan, 48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris. Cours du premier semestre de l'année academique 2022-2023 ; dates et horaires communiqués ultérieurement sur le site du Master PPD (Public Policy and Development).
Le syllabus du cours sera disponible sur le site suivant/The course syllabus will be available from the website below:
UE de 24 h = 4 ECTS.
Lectures in English.
For the administration of the masters, please contact:
master-ppd@psemail.eu (PPD) et master.migration@univ-paris1.fr (Migrations)
INSCRIPTION :
Veuillez-vous référer au processus ci-dessous pour assister à ce cours :
- Étape 1 : vérifier les conditions d’éligibilité et le créneau du cours dans les parties « Calendrier » et « Syllabus » ci-dessous.
- Étape 2 : contacter tous les professeurs du cours pour obtenir leur approbation écrite pour participer à leurs cours.
- Étape 3 : transférer le mail d’acceptation à master-ppd@psemail.eu ou master-ape@psemail.eu
- Étape 4 : en fonction de la disponibilité des salles, le secrétariat vous recontactera pour confirmer ou non votre inscription au cours.
En cas de confirmation par le secrétariat, vous recevrez par la même occasion des informations pratiques afin d’avoir accès aux documents du cours.
CALENDRIER :
Au moment de la saisie Neobab, le planning des cours des masters n’a pas été actualisé. Le calendrier actualisé sera disponible sur le site PSE :
- Direction de travaux des étudiants
Possible. Merci de contacter l'enseignant par émail pour fixer un RDV.
Possible. Please, contact the lecturer by email to fix an appointment.
- Réception des candidats
Merci de contacter l'enseignant par email pour fixer un RDV.
Please, contact the lecturer by email to fix an appointment.
- Pré-requis
Admission dans le master respectif.
Admission in the respective master.
Compte rendu
We see inequalities, we measure them, we describe increasing top income and wealth shares. But we cannot properly interpret and understand what we observe without a general theory that develops the concepts of commodity, money, capital, power, and history. There is a broad agreement that there should be more taxation and redistribution, but we lack a serious discussion about why we expect this to come from the “state”, or why we stick to the illusion of the “state” as the sphere of common good that can and should tame capital and foster development through properly evaluated parliament-decided public policies. It is usually expected that redistribution will take place within a democratic framework with strict regard for due process of law. But this preconception takes for granted something that has not yet been established: the compatibility between democracy and the continuing developments of capitalism.
The social sciences in general, and Economics in particular, have abandoned the quest and the responsibility to produce and think in terms of a general theory. In this course we challenge this view and argue that, if we want to fulfill our duty to understand social phenomena, it is necessary to reclaim the primacy of general theories: a conceptual framework that conceives the system – its subject matter – as an internally differentiated whole, where the interaction of its constituting elements is articulated according to general laws. It is only on the basis of general theories that we will be able to understand history (as a self-transforming, cumulative, and irreversible process, specific to human society), and, most importantly, apprehend the challenges of contemporary capitalism, including our particular focus of concern: socioeconomic inequalities. We propose that only the continuation of the living yet dormant Political Economy project offers the keys to comprehend the challenges of our historical present, where the main conflict is not 'who owns how much' but 'who plans whom', and where the differentiation of capital explains the observed social differentiations (of labor, social classes, nation states, currencies, wealth, incomes).
Through active discussions, the course has allowed students to gain new insights on current concerns such as inequality and poverty. It has also provided the theoretical foundations to understand the historical roots and reasons of the modality the contemporaneous scientific and public debate on inequality develops.
The course benefited from the participation of two invited academics: Prof. Pilar Piqué, from the University of Buenos Aires, and Prof. Ingrid Bleynat, from King’s College-London.
Publications
- Avec Denis Cogneau et Thomas Piketty, « Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, and Vietnam, and comparison with the British Empire 1920-1960 », Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 152.
- Avec Anthony B. Atkinson. 2022, «Top Incomes in South Africa in the Twentieth Century », Cliometrica, 2022, 16, p. 477–546
- Avec Lydia Assouad et Thomas Piketty, « Measuring inequality in the Middle East », dansThe Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy, sous la dir. d'H. Hakimian, chapter 12. Routledge, 2021.
- Avec Denis Cogneau et Thomas Piketty, « Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, and Vietnam, and comparison with the British Empire 1920-1960 », CEPR-Center of Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper DP 14969, 2021.
- Avec Mauricio De Rosa, Ignacio Flores Beale et Marc Morgan, « The inequality (or the growth) we measure. Data gaps and the distribution of incomes (in Latin America) », CEPR-Center of Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper DP 17135 & WID.world WP 07/2022 pdf, 2022.
- Avec Paolo Acciari et Salvatore Morelli, « The concentration of personal wealth in Italy 1995-2016 », CEPR-Center of Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper DP 16053 & WID.world WP 14/2021, 2021.
Dernière modification : 19 mai 2022 11:05
- Type d'UE
- Séminaires DE/MC
- Disciplines
- Économie
- Page web
- -
- Langues
- anglais
- Mots-clés
- Économie politique Inégalités Patrimoine
- Aires culturelles
- -
Intervenant·e·s
- Facundo Alvaredo [référent·e] maître de conférences, EHESS / Paris School of Economics (PJSE)
The objectives of the course are: (i) to critically discuss a number of recent developments in the field of economic inequality (of income and wealth) and distribution studies; (ii) to study the concepts of inequality, capital, and commodity as they have evolved with the progress of Economic Science; (iii) as a necessary step to understand the concept of inequality, to study the principles of the current process of capital differentiation (in articulation with the planning and appropriation of the production of innovations -a human capability) to conclude that what we observe today is a process of centralization that does not presuppose the formal ownership of assets.
After the end of the course, students will have the possibility of continuing the study of the topics proposed by joining the Research Seminar "The Challenges of Contemporary Capitalism and the Political Economy Project" (en français "Capitalisme contemporain et le projet original de l’Économie Politique").
For more information see:
https://history.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/events/discussion-groups/
https://history.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/evenements/groupes-de-discussion/
-
Séminaires de recherche
– Économie appliquée - Politiques publiques et développement
– M2/S3
Suivi et validation – semestriel hebdomadaire = 4 ECTS
MCC – Essays -
Séminaires de recherche
– Migrations
– M2/S3
Suivi et validation – semestriel hebdomadaire = 4 ECTS
MCC – Essay
- Contacts additionnels
- master-ppd@psemail.eu
- Informations pratiques
Campus Jourdan, 48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris. Cours du premier semestre de l'année academique 2022-2023 ; dates et horaires communiqués ultérieurement sur le site du Master PPD (Public Policy and Development).
Le syllabus du cours sera disponible sur le site suivant/The course syllabus will be available from the website below:
UE de 24 h = 4 ECTS.
Lectures in English.
For the administration of the masters, please contact:
master-ppd@psemail.eu (PPD) et master.migration@univ-paris1.fr (Migrations)
INSCRIPTION :
Veuillez-vous référer au processus ci-dessous pour assister à ce cours :
- Étape 1 : vérifier les conditions d’éligibilité et le créneau du cours dans les parties « Calendrier » et « Syllabus » ci-dessous.
- Étape 2 : contacter tous les professeurs du cours pour obtenir leur approbation écrite pour participer à leurs cours.
- Étape 3 : transférer le mail d’acceptation à master-ppd@psemail.eu ou master-ape@psemail.eu
- Étape 4 : en fonction de la disponibilité des salles, le secrétariat vous recontactera pour confirmer ou non votre inscription au cours.
En cas de confirmation par le secrétariat, vous recevrez par la même occasion des informations pratiques afin d’avoir accès aux documents du cours.
CALENDRIER :
Au moment de la saisie Neobab, le planning des cours des masters n’a pas été actualisé. Le calendrier actualisé sera disponible sur le site PSE :
- Direction de travaux des étudiants
Possible. Merci de contacter l'enseignant par émail pour fixer un RDV.
Possible. Please, contact the lecturer by email to fix an appointment.
- Réception des candidats
Merci de contacter l'enseignant par email pour fixer un RDV.
Please, contact the lecturer by email to fix an appointment.
- Pré-requis
Admission dans le master respectif.
Admission in the respective master.
-
48 bd Jourdan
48 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris
1er semestre / hebdomadaire, mardi 13:00-17:00
du 7 septembre 2021 au 30 novembre 2021
We see inequalities, we measure them, we describe increasing top income and wealth shares. But we cannot properly interpret and understand what we observe without a general theory that develops the concepts of commodity, money, capital, power, and history. There is a broad agreement that there should be more taxation and redistribution, but we lack a serious discussion about why we expect this to come from the “state”, or why we stick to the illusion of the “state” as the sphere of common good that can and should tame capital and foster development through properly evaluated parliament-decided public policies. It is usually expected that redistribution will take place within a democratic framework with strict regard for due process of law. But this preconception takes for granted something that has not yet been established: the compatibility between democracy and the continuing developments of capitalism.
The social sciences in general, and Economics in particular, have abandoned the quest and the responsibility to produce and think in terms of a general theory. In this course we challenge this view and argue that, if we want to fulfill our duty to understand social phenomena, it is necessary to reclaim the primacy of general theories: a conceptual framework that conceives the system – its subject matter – as an internally differentiated whole, where the interaction of its constituting elements is articulated according to general laws. It is only on the basis of general theories that we will be able to understand history (as a self-transforming, cumulative, and irreversible process, specific to human society), and, most importantly, apprehend the challenges of contemporary capitalism, including our particular focus of concern: socioeconomic inequalities. We propose that only the continuation of the living yet dormant Political Economy project offers the keys to comprehend the challenges of our historical present, where the main conflict is not 'who owns how much' but 'who plans whom', and where the differentiation of capital explains the observed social differentiations (of labor, social classes, nation states, currencies, wealth, incomes).
Through active discussions, the course has allowed students to gain new insights on current concerns such as inequality and poverty. It has also provided the theoretical foundations to understand the historical roots and reasons of the modality the contemporaneous scientific and public debate on inequality develops.
The course benefited from the participation of two invited academics: Prof. Pilar Piqué, from the University of Buenos Aires, and Prof. Ingrid Bleynat, from King’s College-London.
Publications
- Avec Denis Cogneau et Thomas Piketty, « Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, and Vietnam, and comparison with the British Empire 1920-1960 », Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 152.
- Avec Anthony B. Atkinson. 2022, «Top Incomes in South Africa in the Twentieth Century », Cliometrica, 2022, 16, p. 477–546
- Avec Lydia Assouad et Thomas Piketty, « Measuring inequality in the Middle East », dansThe Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy, sous la dir. d'H. Hakimian, chapter 12. Routledge, 2021.
- Avec Denis Cogneau et Thomas Piketty, « Income inequality under colonial rule. Evidence from French Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, and Vietnam, and comparison with the British Empire 1920-1960 », CEPR-Center of Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper DP 14969, 2021.
- Avec Mauricio De Rosa, Ignacio Flores Beale et Marc Morgan, « The inequality (or the growth) we measure. Data gaps and the distribution of incomes (in Latin America) », CEPR-Center of Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper DP 17135 & WID.world WP 07/2022 pdf, 2022.
- Avec Paolo Acciari et Salvatore Morelli, « The concentration of personal wealth in Italy 1995-2016 », CEPR-Center of Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper DP 16053 & WID.world WP 14/2021, 2021.