Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of...

This Ph.D. thesis consists of three chapters and analyzes how economic structures affect political outcomes. In the first chapter, Uwe Sunde and I develop a model to study the endogenous emergence of political regimes in societies in which productive resources are distributed unequally and...

Anleger sind verunsichert, weil sie sich fragen müssen, ob Finanzprodukte dem Kunden oder nur der Finanzindustrie dienen. Die Autoren erklären, warum das globale Finanzsystem ungerecht ist und geben Tipps, welche Kapitalanlagen jetzt noch sinnvoll sind. Rezension (ekz): Die Autoren betreiben...