The research paper consists of 4000 to 5,000 words, including citations and references. You can pick any topic related to global inequality (use the syllabus for inspiration).
Recommended Readings These recommended readings are here for students interested in building an enhanced understanding of any particular part of the course material. • Acemoglu, Daron and James A. Robinson. 2012. Why Nations Fail. Crown Publishing Group. • Clark, Gregory. 2015. The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility. Princeton University Press. • Easterly, William. 2014. The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. Basic Books. • Kenworthy, Lane. 2008. Jobs with Equality. Oxford University Press. • Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson. 2010. Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. • Piketty, Thomas G. 2015. The Economics of Inequality. Translation. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge: Belknap Press. • Piketty, Thomas G. 2014. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Translation. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge: Belknap Press. • Polanyi, Karl. 2001. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, 2nd ed. Beacon Press. • Stiglitz, Joseph E. 2012. The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future. W. W. Norton & Company. • Wilkinson, Richard and Pickett, Kate. 2011. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Bloomsbury Press.