From podcast webpage:
In this two part series on inequality, we will be talking about moments during the history of researching inequality. In this first part, we explore different ways people have thought about inequality and how it is measured, and the possible impacts that this thinking and measurement has on our economies and policies. In part two, to be released soon, we look at why and how inequality goes up and down depending on where we look.
Poornima Paidipaty and Pedro Ramos Pinto talk primarily about their special issue on The Measure of Inequality: Scoial Knowledge in Historical Perspective published in 2020 in the Historical of Political Economy Journal.
To check out Dan Hirschman’s approach to analysing how things are counted called knowledge infrastructures, see this article. He references the book A Vast Machine by Paul Edwards.
To find out more about Christian O. Christiansen’s project on historicising global inequality, check out their website. To check out his latest book, Talking About Inequality, click here.