Event: Economic Inequality After the Pandemic

How have governments responded to the economic crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic, and what will be the consequences? On Tuesday, April 6, a panel discussion with Wolfgang Schmidt, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance of Germany, Angella MacEwen, Senior Economist, Canadian Union of Public Employees, and Branko Milanovic, Professor and Senior Scholar, the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, the Graduate Center, CUNY, addressed the inequalities revealed and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the public policy tools available to ameliorate those inequalities, and the likely paths economies can take in the recovery from the pandemic.

This public online event was moderated by John Torpey, Director, European Union Studies Center and Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, and organized with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Washington office. It was co-sponsored by the American Council on Germany, Colorado European Union Center of Excellence, University of Florida Center for European Studies, and Stone Center on Inequality at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

The entire event was recorded - you can find video and audio as well as a transcript of the discussion here.

We were joined by 

Angella McEwan, Senior Economist at the Canadian Union of Public Employees

Professor Branko Milanovic, Stone Center Senior Scholar, The Graduate Center CUNY

and 

State Secretary Wolfgang Schmidt, of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Germany

The panel was moderated by 

John Torpey, Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center CUNY