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Lucas Chancel

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Lucas Chancel is a French economist who worked on the  World Inequality Report 2018 with Thomas Piketty, and co-directs the World Inequality Lab


June 2026

  • People wade through flood waters after heavy monsoon rains in Feni, south-eastern Bangladesh, 24 August 2024.

    double quotation markA good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how

    Thomas Piketty, Lucas Chancel, Cornelia Mohren, Rowaida Moshrif, Moritz Odersky and Anmol Somanchi
    Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab

December 2021

  • ‘At current global emissions rates, the carbon budget that we have left if we are to stay under 1.5°C will be depleted in six years.’

    This is Europe
    double quotation markThe richest 10% produce about half of greenhouse gas emissions. They should pay to fix the climate

    Lucas Chancel
    This is not simply a rich versus poor countries divide: there are huge emitters in poor countries, and low emitters in rich countries

January 2018

  • waiter paris france

    Europe now
    double quotation markThe fairest of them all: why Europe beats the US on equality

    Lucas Chancel
    The inequality gap is widening across the globe – but Europe restricts the damage better than anywhere else, writes the French economist Lucas Chancel