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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.

ADB has published its flagship economic report for developing Asia and the Pacific. Here are three things to know about #ADO2024.

Has the US exorbitant privilege become a rich world privilege? Rates of return & foreign assets from a global perspective 1970-2022 G Nievas & A Sodano Please read this great work: it contains key findings showing the need to rethink the governance of the global financial system

Back from the IMF/World Bank Spring meetings, where — six weeks after the beginning of the work at the G20 on a coordinated taxation of the super-rich — there was palpable "tax the rich" energy in the room A few notable developments 🧵

Somehow, a guy named "Pope" is keeping tabs on who's lying about attending church, using cell phone data. What a world we live in...

And just like that... :) academic.oup.com/qje/advance-ar…

Quite some change indeed since summer 2016...

Never forget the victims of [unspecified event] of 1915. #NeverAgain #WeRemember(something)

The Doppler effect is named after Austrian mathematician Christan Doppler, who died aged 49 in Venice falling from the top of the Bell tower of San Marco. One of his students, also present, thought his scream sounded funny and worked out the pitch thing and named it in his honor.

You think housing prices will keep going up because you've seen it all your life. But this is a historic anomaly that is likely to reverse soon: Prices might start shrinking in many places. This thread is the case against investing in housing:

Kazakhstan’s state railway company says there are plans to create a passenger route from the Chinese city of Xi'an to Almaty

1/ Europe doesn't have a tech industry. But why is that the case? The short answer: it's not because of regulation. 🧵A thread:

FT asks: "Can Europe’s economy ever hope to rival the US again?" A reminder that once you strip out population and dollar strength (which doesn't impact living standards in Europe), countries in the EU are *converging* with the US, not falling behind. ft.com/content/93f882…

A great account of travelling in Kyrgyzstan from British newspaper Financial Times 🇰🇬 🏔️ 🇬🇧 ft.com/content/cb676e…

Seven Actions Armenia Can Take to Accelerate the Adoption of Electric Vehicles blogs.adb.org/blog/seven-act… via Asian Development Bank @ADB

“We played on uranium waste as kids.” Great secrecy surrounded uranium mining in the Soviet Union. Yet the impact of the resulting contamination is indelible in the memories of the locals who experienced it econ.st/3UNIscv

Pour ceux que ça intéresse, j'étais chez Raphael Kahane sur France 24 ce vendredi pour parler COP29 et Azerbaïdjan. Captez mon gilet kirghize et mes cheveux en bataille (ma mère a trouvé ça très bien). #FreeBahruzSamadov france24.com/fr/%C3%A9missi…

Developing Asia’s growth has been solid, but significant risks lie ahead. Trade uncertainty is at an all-time high, and geopolitical tensions are escalating. Can the region overcome these challenges? Join the launch of #ADO2025 to learn more. 🗓️ 9 April 2025 | 2:00 p.m.