Join us on October 1, 2025 for the 2nd Annual Stone Distinguished Lecture on Inequality, featuring a presentation by Sir Richard Blundell titled “Dimensions of Inequality: Reflections from the Deaton Review,” presented by the Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality.
Event Details
Date: October 1, 2025
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 PM
The lecture will be followed by an invite-only reception in the BIE lounge for Stone affiliates and fellows
Location: Vancouver School of Economics, Iona Building, Room 301
Registration
Please confirm your attendance by registering through the link below.
Professor Sir Richard Blundell, CBE FBA holds the David Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London where he was appointed Professor of Economics in 1984. He was the founding Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) IFS where he was Research Director 1986 – 2016 and is currently Co-Director and Research Fellow at IFS CPP. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of St.Gallen; Norwegian School of Economics NHH; University of Mannheim; Universita della Svizzera; University of Bristol; University of Venice Ca’Foscari; and Athens School of Economics, AUEB, Athens. He has held visiting professor positions at UBC, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, TSE and Berkeley. He was Knighted in the 2014 New Years Honours list for services to Economics and Social Science; he was awarded the CBE in 2006.
His published papers on microeconometrics, consumer behavior, savings, labour supply, taxation, public finance, innovation, and inequality have appeared in the top academic journals. He was co-editor of Econometrica 1997-2001, co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics 1992–1997. He is founding editor of Microeconomic Insights. He was an editor and panel member of the IFS Mirrlees Review: Tax Reform for the 21st Century. He is currently editor and panel member of the IFS-Deaton Review: Inequality in the 21st Century. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the British Academy, the American Economic Association, American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of Actuaries and the National Academy of Science. He has been President of the European Economics Association; the Econometric Society; the Society of Labor Economics, and the Royal Economic Society. He was recipient of the 1995 Yrjö Jahnsson Prize; the 2000 Frisch Prize; the 2008 Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize; the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Prize in Economics; the 2016 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics; and the 2020 Jacob Mincer Prize in Labor Economics.
Presentation Abstract
This lecture will draw on ideas and evidence from the IFS Deaton Review. It will focus on inequalities that play out during the working life and examine the role of families, the labour market, and firms. It will examine the impact of education, redistribution and self-insurance, highlighting that it is not only income inequality that is important but also inequalities in wealth, work, wages, consumption, education, health, political voice, and the way these inequalities interact across the life-cycle and across society. Inequalities between groups including gender, ethnicity, race, generations, geography and place, will also come into play too. Drawing this work together the Lecture will aim to identify the key inequality concerns and possible directions of policies to address them. The aim will be to show why looking across all these dimensions of inequality is important to fully understand inequality and to design appropriate policy responses.
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