Via The Sociological Imagination – video recordings of an LSE event in May 2015 – Inequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty.

Speakers include: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor Wendy Carlin,  Professor Sir John Hills, Professor Naila Kabeer, Professor Thomas Piketty, Professor Stephanie Seguino, Professor David Soskice

A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Centuryhas been of global significance in shaping debates about inequality across the globe. The workshop will be hosted by LSE’s new International Inequalities Institute with the Department of Sociology at LSE and the British Journal of Sociology, which ran a special issue of reviews on Piketty’s book, several of the contributors to which will be involved in these discussions.

Thomas Piketty is a professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics, an alumnus of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century.