Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac for PS Longer Reads: The Hidden Gender Wealth Gap

Will the Israel-Hamas War Spread? In a new Big Question, Comfort Ero, Negar Mortazavi, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Sinan Ülgen respond. [View this message in a web browser]( [PS On Point]( NOVEMBER 10, 2023 This year's Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Claudia Goldin for her work documenting how gender-based employment and wage gaps have gradually been closed over time. But now we will need many more Goldins, write Paris Dauphine University's Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac of the National Center for Scientific Research, because the nature of economic inequality has shifted from income to capital – and women are losing ground once again. [Read more]( [PS Longer Reads: The Hidden Gender Wealth Gap]( [The Hidden Gender Wealth Gap]( By Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac As important as equal pay and other labor-market advances for women have been, progress toward economic parity with men remains tenuous and incomplete. As inequality becomes less about wages and more about wealth, women once again find themselves facing profound structural disadvantages. [Read more]( [PS. Subscribe to PS Digital now.]( [PS Big Question: Will the Israel-Hamas War Spread?]( [Will the Israel-Hamas War Spread?]( with Comfort Ero, Negar Mortazavi, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Sinan Ülgen As Israel’s war against Hamas enters its second month, tensions are running high across the region, with some observers predicting a geopolitical reshuffling, and others fearing a wider Middle East war. We asked PS commentators to assess the likely behavior of Israel’s neighbors and regional powers such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. [Read more]( [PS Say More: Jayati Ghosh on greedflation, debt, corporate taxation, and more]( [Jayati Ghosh on greedflation, debt, corporate taxation, and more]( Jayati Ghosh argues that advanced-economy rate hikes were both unnecessary and damaging, considers how to reduce the power of agribusiness over the global food system, condemns the Indian government’s manipulation of essential economic data, and more. Ghosh is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the Club of Rome’s Transformational Economics Commission. [Read more]( [PS Longer Reads: The Nazis' First Try]( [The Nazis' First Try]( By Mark Jones A century after Adolf Hitler's first attempt to seize power in Germany by force, it is worth remembering the economic and political conditions that gave the Nazis momentum in the first place. In an era of recrudescent nationalism and chauvinism, such historical lessons have gained new urgency. [Read more]( [PS. Explore the latest issue of our magazine, PS Quarterly: Stayin’ Alive.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.