Unsustainable Inequalities

Social Justice and the Environment

Lucas Chancel

Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise

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$29.95 • £23.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674984653

Publication Date: 10/06/2020

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184 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

15 illus., 2 tables

Belknap Press

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Lucas Chancel is codirector of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics and coeditor of the World Inequality Report 2018. A lecturer at Sciences Po, he is also Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations.

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