Leading inequality writer returns to New Zealand

Leading inequality writer returns to New Zealand

Robert Wade, one of the world's most incisive analysts of inequality, trade and the global financial system, will be speaking in Wellington on Thursday 26 November.

Wade, a professor of political economy at the London School of Economics and a New Zealander by birth, returns to these shores following an enormously popular lecture tour in 2013, which saw him speaking to packed venues in all the main centres.

Prof Wade's visit comes at a time when inequality levels in developed nations are at a height not seen for many decades; his talk will connect New Zealanders with the growing international debate on inequality.

Global economic bodies have described burgeoning income and wealth gaps as the key issue of our time. Prof Wade, a prolific and influential writer in both the mainstream media and academic publications, is ideally placed to explain how these debates are playing out on the world stage and to describe the future of global inequality.

Drawing on his experience of both working for and critiquing institutions such as the World Bank, Prof Wade will discuss the ways in which wealth and power interact on the global stage and the forces fostering an ever greater concentration of wealth.

Prof Wade has been the recipient – among other honours – of the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, and is the author of the seminal work Governing the Market.

He will be speaking at the Royal Society at 5.30pmon Thursday 26 November, in conversation withWellington-based researcher and author Max Rashbrooke, who will present his new data onwealth inequality in New Zealand. The event will be chaired by Dr Geoff Bertram of VUW's Institute for Governance and Policy Studies.

The free talk is open to the public and no RSVP is required.

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