Discussing the global justice report
In this public event, Lucas Chancel will present the main results of the Global Justice Report, with the online presence of Thomas Piketty as a second speaker, and Tania Burchardt as a discussant.
The Global Justice Report attempts to set out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century: grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability. It explores the conditions under which the world could move toward this horizon and traces an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100. Its main conclusion is simple: it is possible to reconcile planetary habitability and high well-being for all, but only if the transformation rests on three pillars simultaneously. Fast decarbonisation of energy systems is necessary. But we also need a major shift toward sufficiency – understood as a sharp reduction in labour hours and material footprint and large changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use, and forest cover. In addition, neither decarbonization nor sufficiency can be financed and politically sustained without a drastic reduction in inequality of income, wealth and power, both between countries and within them.
Meet our speakers and chair
Lucas Chancel is an economist. His work focuses on the study of economic inequality, its interactions with unsustainable development patterns, and on the implementation of social and ecological policies. His recent projects focused on the trends and determinants of income and wealth inequality (both past and present) in rich and developing countries as well as at the global level, based on the use of tax data, household surveys, national accounts and rich lists.
Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at LSE.
Tania Burchardt is a Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and an Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE).
Lea Ypi (@lea_ypi) is the Ralph Miliband Professor in Politics and Philosophy at LSE, a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Honorary Professor at ANU. Author of Free and Indignity (Penguin), her work has won major prizes, including the RSL Ondaatje Prize and Leverhulme Prize, and been translated into 35+ languages. She coedits Political Philosophy and writes for the FT and Guardian.
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Alternatives to Capitalism (AC) is a major new multidisciplinary initiative to investigate viable alternatives to capitalism and explore how political, economic, and cultural life might be organised beyond capitalist social relations. Led by Lea Ypi and Vincent Harting, it brings together leading scholars in political philosophy and the social sciences to examine competing post-capitalist visions, institutions, and strategies for social transformation. Through research, public engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration, the initiative seeks to advance rigorous thinking about what should come after capitalism and how such alternatives might be realised.
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