This semester I've been teaching 'Economic Inequality and Growth' at UC Berkeley. This is a thread with some of my favorite graphs.

First, the headline everyone's-seen-it graph: falling then rising income inequality in Anglophone countries.

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We/UTS is recruiting for an ongoing Indigenous identified Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences (in our School of Communication). Can be any discipline.
Feel free to contact me if you want to chat about it!
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UNSW Social Policy Research Centre Carla Treloar ACOSS UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture peter davidson 2) The share of wealth held by those aged 65+ has increased from 27 to 34% since 2003-04. At the same time, there has been a dramatic increase in wealth inequality in households headed by people aged under 35.

Good question …

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SPIES IN THE OUTBACK
ABC Expanse podcast

“Sold on a lie, built on stolen land and shrouded in secrecy; Pine Gap has been called a space base, a spy base, an obscenity hidden on the fringe of an outback…

Media folks should start asking their interviewees if they recognise Palestine’s right to exist

This was such a great project to have been a part of! The full report on the referendum campaigns is available now 👇

New figures show the average Australian has to spend a third of their income to cover the median rent. For low-income earners, they have to spend half. This is unaffordable, unfair, & must change. Be part of the solution. Share your story today: everybodyshome.com.au/peoples-commis…

'There is no clear evidence from experience that the investment policy which is socially advantageous coincides with that which is most profitable.'

- John Maynard Keynes, 1936

Unfortunately we've had to postpone this launch. Be back with new details soon.

At least 10% of women suffer from endometriosis & endure severe pain every month.

I’m one of them & just recovered from surgery.

Patriarchy tells us: Get used to periods being painful & keep quiet. Most of us aren’t diagnosed for about a decade.

Sharing to fight the silence.

🙅‍♂️ “Australia should stop manufacturing” – economists

😏 “Australia should stop manufacturing economists”

It’s what comparative advantage demands!

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#BREAKING 🚨 Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins, Justice Michael Lee finds | #6NewsAU

If you are an urbanism with a passion for shaping the future of the urban curriculum and teaching, check out the position we have for Prof of Urbanism ⁦Sydney Architecture, Design and Planning⁩ usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_…

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH KLAXON 🚨

Join me and many excellent coauthors on Wed as we launch Australian Politics at a Crossroads. The book addresses many pressing challenges for Australia, including climate (the focus of my chapter with Robert Thomson).

5pm Monash Caulfield. See you then!

BRAZILIAN WOMEN PROTEST COACH’S RETURN 🇧🇷

Players across Brazilian top flight covered their mouth to mark the return of Kleiton Lima, the Santos manager who was allowed to return despite 19 complaints of harassment.

Great reporting, Dibradoras. 💪

At the height of the US’ drone programme, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, etc lived under constant threat of missile attacks. There are studies on how it traumatised a whole generation of children. Folks just keep not counting them

By verbal instructions of German police Yanis Varoufakis was issued with a general ban on all activities „Betätigungsverbot“ apparently on orders of Interior Ministry without naming legal basis. This cannot stand!
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Cash as medicine?

“If understood as one piece of a renewed public system for ensuring the wellbeing of US residents, [ #basicincome ] could be an essential step in addressing profound inequality & deteriorating trust in government & public health”

Reinhart
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Udi Raz was fired last year from the Jewish Museum Berlin where he worked as a tour guide because he called Israel an Apartheid state. This video report is by Alexander Durie