Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Ecole normale supérieure. He was formerly co-director of the International Macroeconomy Programme and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and has acted as a consultant to the World Bank and the IMF.; Thomas Piketty is Directeur d'études at the EHESS, Paris, and Research Fellow at CEPREMAP (Paris) and CEPR (London). Previous positions have included Research Fellow at CNRS and Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at MIT. He is co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics.; Gilles Saint-Paul is Professor of Economics at the Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France. He was previously a Researcher at DELTA, Paris (1990-7), Visiting Professor at MIT (Spring 1995), and Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (1997-2000). He has been a CEPR Research Fellow since 1991 and Programme Director for labour economics since 2001.

The studies cover quite a broad set of issues affecting inequality ... The research agenda of these studies is rich and ambitious.

• PART I: MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS; PART II: LIFETIME INEQUALITIES AND THE SCOPE FOR REDISTRIBUTION

Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Ecole normale supérieure. He was formerly co-director of the International Macroeconomy Programme and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and has acted as a consultant to the World Bank and the IMF.; Thomas Piketty is Directeur d'études at the EHESS, Paris, and Research Fellow at CEPREMAP (Paris) and CEPR (London). Previous positions have included Research Fellow at CNRS and Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at MIT. He is co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics.; Gilles Saint-Paul is Professor of Economics at the Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France. He was previously a Researcher at DELTA, Paris (1990-7), Visiting Professor at MIT (Spring 1995), and Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (1997-2000). He has been a CEPR Research Fellow since 1991 and Programme Director for labour economics since 2001.

The studies cover quite a broad set of issues affecting inequality ... The research agenda of these studies is rich and ambitious.

• PART I: MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS; PART II: LIFETIME INEQUALITIES AND THE SCOPE FOR REDISTRIBUTION

Daniel Cohen is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Ecole normale supérieure. He was formerly co-director of the International Macroeconomy Programme and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and has acted as a consultant to the World Bank and the IMF.; Thomas Piketty is Directeur d'études at the EHESS, Paris, and Research Fellow at CEPREMAP (Paris) and CEPR (London). Previous positions have included Research Fellow at CNRS and Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at MIT. He is co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics.; Gilles Saint-Paul is Professor of Economics at the Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, France. He was previously a Researcher at DELTA, Paris (1990-7), Visiting Professor at MIT (Spring 1995), and Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (1997-2000). He has been a CEPR Research Fellow since 1991 and Programme Director for labour economics since 2001.

The studies cover quite a broad set of issues affecting inequality ... The research agenda of these studies is rich and ambitious.

• PART I: MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS; PART II: LIFETIME INEQUALITIES AND THE SCOPE FOR REDISTRIBUTION