Haroon's devlog

From www.inequalitybriefing.org, an excellent visual overview of the state of inequality in the UK today.

From www.therules.org, an excellent brief overview of historical and contemporary global inequality.

For years I have been telling students that the world population is going to peak at 10 billion around 2050. Last year, following revised ...

This remarkable video, created by ActionAid India, highlights the struggles of adivasi people against land grabs in rural India. Their stru...

During the 1980s, living in England during the Thatcher years, one of the most profound influences on my intellectual development were the w...

For the past 7 years I have commenced my first year course with a lecture on global poverty and world income inequality. I have just seen a...

This is an absolutely fantastic video on the food system: Go to the website, and you can download school curriculum materials as well.

This link is a followup by Oxfam America to a book of photo essays, Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluis...

On January 2nd, a brilliant economist, Stephen Resnick, one of the founding members and a cornerstone of the heterodox Economics Department ...

An excellent new short video on the food system from Oxfam International:

Omar is a 17 year old Somali living in a refugee camp in Tunisia. A short film by Nick Francis and Marc Silver.

The single most important Robert Reich clip you can share today; it’s two minutes and sixteen seconds of pure common sense that you can shar...

Jayoti Ghosh is one of the best heterodox development economists working today. Here is her recent prescription for equitably fixing the gl...

This is an excellent article by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen on India's social and economic performance in the 21st century. It was first...

A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has...

It is International Women's Day. Here's the truth. Thanks to Norah for passing this on.

An excellent article on food price volatility by one of my former students. How imaginary demand has made food prices more volatile It is on...

An excellent analysis of the circumstances surrounding the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia by Esam Al-Amin: Esam Al-Amin: The Fall of the West...

Take the 10 seconds needed to sign this petition. One billion hungry in the world is unacceptable. 1billionhungry.org

This interesting paper from the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives shows how over a 90 year period there have been cycles in inequality...