Inequality and social relations

Inequality and social relations

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How to manage and address fairness in market economies at a time inequality keeps increasing? Professor Jean-Paul Chavas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, proposed some lines of thought at a seminar organised jointly by the EIB Institute, the University of Luxembourg...
A new “inequality spiral” is born

A new “inequality spiral” is born

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Since the 1980s human capital accumulation has been playing an ever more important role in creating a new “inequality spiral”, argued Professor Pierre-André Chiappori of Columbia University at a seminar organised jointly by the EIB Institute, the University of...
Does economic growth equal happiness?

Does economic growth equal happiness?

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Is economic growth the only path to happiness? Maybe not, said Serge Allegrezza (STATEC, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) at a seminar organised jointly by the EIB Institute, the University of Luxembourg...