Global justice report offers bold ideas but misses the realities of 2 billion informal workers – economists

By Laura Alfers, Research Associate, Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit, Rhodes University
Imraan Valodia, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
Martha Alter Chen, Emeritus Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School
Mike Rogan, Associate Professor, Rhodes University

Rising inequality is, at its core, a political and policy choice. This is the central message of the Global Justice Report authored by experts based at the World Inequality Lab, led by economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel.

As economists and experts on labour, inequality and the informal economy, we believe there…

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