Atkinson-seminar: Is Rising Income Inequality Inevitable?

A Critique of the Transatlantic
Consensus by Professor Anthony Barnes Atkinson.

20.10.1999 - Paraplyen

The World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), The
United Nations University & The Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo cordially invite you to the 1999 WIDER Annual Lecture.

Many people believe that rising income inequality is inevitable. It is the result of forces, such as technological change, over which we have no control, or of developments such as globalisation, which are irreversible. Professor Atkinson takes issue with this view, focusing on the experience of OECD countries, but with lessons for the world as a whole. He argues that rising income inequality has a social as well as an economic explanation, and that redistributive policy can be effective. Rising inequality is not inevitable.

This event is sponsored by The Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and hosted by the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo

Monday, 1 November 1999, 16:15 - 18:00 hours
University of Oslo, Auditorium 1, Georg Sverdrups hus (new library
building), Blindern

For further information, please contact Dan Banik, Centre for
Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, tel. (47) 22 85 87 35
Seminar

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