
Dr Benjamin Tippet
Lecturer in Economics and Wealth Inequality
Research interests
- Economics
- International development
- Environment
Contact details
Biography
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
A progressive excess profit tax for the European Union
Heck, I., Rabensteiner, T. & Tippet, B., 2024, PEGFA.Research output: Other contribution
National Renewal Tax: how a tax on the super-rich will create a fairer, greener UK
Tippet, B., 2024, Greenpeace.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Revisiting the Relationship between Vulnerability and Climate Action
Galanis, G., Richiuti, G. & Tippet, B., 2024.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper
The good life at the top continued: analysing the Sunday Times Rich List 1989-2024
Tippet, B. & Wildauer, R., 2024, (PEGFA Policy Brief).Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper
House price cycles, housing systems, and growth models
Kohler, K., Tippet, B. & Stockhammer, E., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The good life at the top: analysing The Sunday Times Rich List 1989-2023
Tippet, B. & Wildauer, R., 2023, (PEGFA Policy Brief).Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper
The Effect of Labor's Bargaining Power on Wealth Inequality in the UK, USA, And France
Tippet, B., Onaran, O. & Wildauer, R., 13 Dec 2022, In: REVIEW OF INCOME AND WEALTH. 70, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Secular stagnation and core-periphery uneven development in post-crisis eurozone
Botta, A. & Tippet, B., 24 Mar 2021, In: COMPETITION AND CHANGE. 26, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The case for a progressive annual wealth tax in the UK
Tippet, B., Onaran, O. & Wildauer, R., 2021, (PEGFA Policy Brief)Research output: Book/Report › Report
Paying for the Pandemic and a Just Transition
Tippet, B., 2020, TNI (Transnational Institue).Research output: Book/Report › Report
Research

The Political Economy of Growth Models in an Age of Stagnation
The Political Economy of Growth Models in an Age of Stagnation
Project status: Ongoing

Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
News
A 2% wealth tax on UK's richest could have raised £160 billion in 32 years
Report is the first dynamic analysis of a wealth tax on the UK wealth distribution.

A progressive excess profit tax for the European Union
Heck, I., Rabensteiner, T. & Tippet, B., 2024, PEGFA.Research output: Other contribution
National Renewal Tax: how a tax on the super-rich will create a fairer, greener UK
Tippet, B., 2024, Greenpeace.Research output: Book/Report › Report
Revisiting the Relationship between Vulnerability and Climate Action
Galanis, G., Richiuti, G. & Tippet, B., 2024.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper
The good life at the top continued: analysing the Sunday Times Rich List 1989-2024
Tippet, B. & Wildauer, R., 2024, (PEGFA Policy Brief).Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper
House price cycles, housing systems, and growth models
Kohler, K., Tippet, B. & Stockhammer, E., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The good life at the top: analysing The Sunday Times Rich List 1989-2023
Tippet, B. & Wildauer, R., 2023, (PEGFA Policy Brief).Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Working paper
The Effect of Labor's Bargaining Power on Wealth Inequality in the UK, USA, And France
Tippet, B., Onaran, O. & Wildauer, R., 13 Dec 2022, In: REVIEW OF INCOME AND WEALTH. 70, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Secular stagnation and core-periphery uneven development in post-crisis eurozone
Botta, A. & Tippet, B., 24 Mar 2021, In: COMPETITION AND CHANGE. 26, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The case for a progressive annual wealth tax in the UK
Tippet, B., Onaran, O. & Wildauer, R., 2021, (PEGFA Policy Brief)Research output: Book/Report › Report
Paying for the Pandemic and a Just Transition
Tippet, B., 2020, TNI (Transnational Institue).Research output: Book/Report › Report
Research

The Political Economy of Growth Models in an Age of Stagnation
The Political Economy of Growth Models in an Age of Stagnation
Project status: Ongoing

Global Capitalism, Power & Uneven Development research group
We study the many ways in which the world-system unevenly constrains and drives development everywhere, with its persistent structural hierarchies, dependencies, contradictions, and unequal power relations between classes, ethnicities, genders, races, and states.
News
A 2% wealth tax on UK's richest could have raised £160 billion in 32 years
Report is the first dynamic analysis of a wealth tax on the UK wealth distribution.
