Gary Stevenson

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So that was my experience.

But, you know, you, I'm aware, have been academia much longer than me.

Have things changed?

Did you experience anything like that?

How do you think academic economics is now with regards to being able to seriously look at inequality?

A British economist at Oxford.

I've got his book over there, you can probably, in their shelf, Inequality.

So just very quickly, because I want to get onto your political work.

We often get messaged by young people who want to study economics and they want to study inequality specifically.

That's something I struggled with.

Just very quickly, what advice would you have for maybe young people here in the UK or in other countries

that are thinking about studying economics university and want to focus on equality.

I found that difficult.

Have you got any advice for how people can go about doing that, where they should study, what they should do?

Well, I mean, just for me personally, the work that, you know, you yourself

have done and the work that Thomas Piketty has done was Thomas Piketty, another very well known French economist he's worked a lot with.

It really inspired me.

I think Thomas Piketty's big book Capital came out, I think in 2012, when I was still working as a trader for Citibank.

That's what is in the bookshelf next to Atkinson's Inequality book in that nice cover.

And before I read that book, I didn't know that any economists

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