Publications
Inequality Interactions: The Dynamics of Multi-Dimensional Inequalities, Development and Change, Vol 53, Iss. 5, pp. 941-961, https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12730, 2022.
On the Character and Causes of Inequality in Latin America, Development and Change, Vol 53, Iss. 5, pp. 1087-1102, https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12728, 2022.
Inequality and the Chinese elite: Between international convergence and national divergence, British Journal of Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12851, 2021.
Inequality as Entitlements over Labour, Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1515–1538, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwaa037, 2022
Inequality, Living Standards and Growth: Two Centuries of Economic Development in Mexico (with Ingrid Bleynat and Amilcar Challú), Economic History Review, Vol. 74, Iss. 3, pp. 584-610, https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13027, 2021 (blog post here).
Las caras de la desigualdad: Apuntes preliminares sobre un abordaje multidimensional y multimedial de la desigualdad social, (with Ingrid Bleynat), Lavboratorio, Revista de Estudios sobre Cambio Estructural y Desigualdad Social, No 29, Buenos Aires: Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani, pp. 198 – 209, 2019.
Teaching Macroeconomics in CORE: The Economy, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 53, Issue No. 24, 16 Jun, 2018.
Taxation, Non-Tax Revenue and Democracy: New Evidence Using New Cross-Country Data (with Wilson Prichard and Paola Salardi), World Development, Vol. 109, pp. 295-312, 2018.
Who are the Global Top 1%? (with Sudhir Anand), World Development, Vol. 95, pp.111-126, 2017.
The Economy: Economics for a Changing World (co-author of Units 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, with Sam Bowles, Wendy Carlin, and others), Oxford University Press, 2017.
The Global Distribution of Income (with Sudhir Anand), in Anthony B. Atkinson and François Bourguignon (eds.), Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume II, North-Holland, 2015.
Structural Change in Argentina, 1935-1960: The Role of Import Substitution and Factor Endowments (with Darío Debowicz), Journal of Economic History, Vol. 74 Iss. 01, pp 230-258, 2014.
How to Spend It: Resource Wealth and the Distribution of Resource Rents, Energy Policy, Vol. 51, pp. 340-348, December 2012.
Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend as a Model for Reducing Global Poverty, in Exporting the Alaska Model: Adapting the Permanent Fund Dividend for Reform around the World, K. Widerquist and M. Howard (Editors), Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 109-122.
Resource Rents, Redistribution, and Halving Global Poverty: The Resource Dividend, World Development, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 475-489, 2011.
Oil Price Shocks and the Macroeconomy, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 169-185, 2011.
Anatomy of an Oil-Based Welfare State: Rent Distribution in Kuwait (with Laura El-Katiri and Bassam Fattouh), in David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen (eds.), The Transformation of the Gulf States: Politics, Economics and the Global Order, Routledge, 2011, pp. 165-187. Link is to working paper version.
Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty (Edited with Sudhir Anand and Joseph E. Stiglitz), Oxford University Press, 2010. Introduction to volume.
What Do We Know about Global Income Inequality? (with Sudhir Anand) Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 57-94, 2008.
Equality (with Ben Jackson) (Notes), in A. H. Halsey (ed.), Ethical Socialism for a Prosperous Country, Methuen, 2007. (Updated version of Why Inequality Matters.)
Working papers not published elsewhere
Elite incomes around the world: Command over tradables, non-tradables, and people (with Michail Moatsos), UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2022/138, November 2022.
Faces of Inequality: A Mixed Methods Approach to Multidimensional Inequalities, (with Ingrid Bleynat), Working Paper 68. International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Fiscal Policy and Natural Resource Entitlements: Who Benefits from Mexican Oil?, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Working Paper WPM 46. An earlier version is here, in Spanish here. Write-up by Reuters here.
Oil Revenues and Economic Development: The Case of Rajasthan, India, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, Working Paper WPM 43.
Natural Resource Wealth and Directed Technical Change, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, Research Paper 88.
Book reviews
Review of The Economics of Belonging by Martin Sandbu, Journal of Economic Inequality, forthcoming.
Review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty (translated by Arthur Goldhammer), Renewal Vol. 22 No 3/4, 2014.
Review of The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic, The Journal of Economic Inequality December 2013, Vol. 11, Iss. 4, pp 581-583.
Review of The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier, Renewal, Vol. 16, No. 2.
Other writings
Blog posts at Crooked Timber.
Blog Post at INET: Inequality Represents a Wasted Opportunity for Poverty Reduction.
Policy articles on FT.com and the Guardian.
Inflation expectations are no excuse to raise interest rates
Living with the fiscal deficit is the progressive thing to do
Why the fiscal deficit is not as scary as the government tells us
Oil prices did not cause the recession (Now abridged; original here)
Asinus Muses, ruminations for the Oxford Energy Forum.