About
Paul Segal is Professor of Economics at the IAE Business School, Universidad Austral, Argentina. His research covers inequalities both globally and within countries, poverty, the economics of natural resources, and economic history and development, with a focus on emerging economies. He pioneered the use of the new top incomes data in the study of global inequality, producing the first estimates of the global distribution of income that combined surveys and administrative tax data. He has a strong interest in interdisciplinary approaches, combining economic sociology and political economy with the economics of inequality.
Paul is a co-author of CORE: The Economy, an open-access online economics textbook that is used in over 500 universities across more than 70 countries, where he contributed on macroeconomics, inequality, and the economics of developing countries. He is currently writing a new unit on high inflation and hyperinflation.
Paul has previously held research positions at Harvard University and Oxford University, and was a Lecturer at the University of Sussex and Reader (Associate Professor) at King´s College London. Prior to his doctoral studies he worked for the United Nations Development Programme as part of the core team writing the Human Development Report 2002.
Expertise
Economics, Global Inequality, Poverty