Ben Tippet is a Lecturer in Development Economics. He is a council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a committee member of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society. He is author of Split: Class Divides Uncovered (Pluto Press: 20202). He is also Principal Investigator on a British Academy/Leverhulme funded project building a new dataset on the wealthiest families in the UK from archives of The Sunday Times Rich list.

Research

• Wealth and income inequality
• Global climate action
• Worker’s bargaining power and inequality
• Global care work and migration
• Macroeconomics of housing and financial cycles
• Corporate and wealth taxation

Ben's is a quantitative economist with a particular focus on questions of power and distribution. He is interested in questions related to wealth and income inequality, fiscal policies of redistribution and building new data sources to understand inequality at the national and global level.

Alongside this, Ben is building models of global climate action to understand how global inequalities shape mitigation and adaptation efforts. He specializes in a range of quantitative research methods, including causal identification, macro-econometrics, agent-based modelling and power law distributions.

Teaching

• Macroeconomics for Development
• Economic Inequality and the Distribution of Income

PhD supervision

Ben would be happy to supervise students in any of the following areas:

• Inequality (wealth and income)
• Climate change
• Fiscal policies (corporate and wealth taxation)
• Global and national housing and financial cycles

Further details

See Ben's research profile