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Introduction

Welcome to YSI Inequality Working Group!

The Inequality Working Group explores the philosophical and technical aspects of the link between inequality and economics: What are economists talking about when they talk about inequality? And why is inequality even relevant to economics?

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The Inequality Working Group hosts formal and informal debates, discussions, workshops, and presentations addressing both the philosophical and technical aspects inequality.

If you want to present your paper or invite a speaker, please write us at: inequality@youngscholarsinitiative.org.

If you want to contribute to our agenda please indicate your topic of preference here.

Our website is a great source for student material such as reading lists, 2 minute paper summaries, inequality databases and much more! Make sure to visit us at: www.theiwg.org.

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Working Group Mandate

Each working group pursues questions of mutual interest by organizing webinars, workshops, conferences, and other projects. To see what the groups are focusing on, review their individual mandates!
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Working group(s): Economic Development, Finance, Law, and Economics, Financial Stability, History of Economic Thought, Philosophy of Economics, Economic History, Economics of Innovation, Cooperatives, Keynesian Economics, Gender and Economics, Political Economy of Europe, Latin America, Inequality, Complexity Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Africa, States and Markets, Sustainability, Behavior and Society, South Asia

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1. Get notified when a group member initiates a new project.

2. Participate in or start discussion threads

3. Learn how you can start a project on your own.

Note: You are welcome to be part of multiple working groups at the same time!

Working Group Projects

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Working Group News

Working Group news are the primary sources of information about what is happening in the working group. Working group news are used for important updates of relevance to the entire working group membership base, such as calls for registration, announcement of scholarships or similar.

News cannot be responded to, as it is not a conversational format - for this purpose, instead use the Working Group Discussion section!

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Members

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Discussion

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