Fifty Shades of Income Inequality: Public lecture March 30

Colorado State University economics professor Steven Pressman visits Laurentian University March 30 to present a lecture on income inequality.

The lecture, entitled Fifty Shades of Income Inequality: How and why average citizens and the whole economy are taking a beating, takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room C-304.

This lecture will begin by describing French economist Thomas Piketty's work on income inequality and his empirical results concerning inequality.

Piketty's data shows sharply rising income inequality in a large part of the developed world, beginning around the early 1980s.

The talk will then address the negative consequences on such rising inequality.