Media & resources

Media, talks, videos & code

Selected interviews, research coverage, podcasts and videos, together with project resources and replication code.

Audio & video

RTL Aktuell · Geldgeil?!

Geld regiert die Welt: Wie Superreiche eure Politik beeinflussen. A video feature on extreme wealth, political influence and inequality.

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Egon Matzner Prize 2022

Prize ceremony and presentation for A Network-Based Explanation of Inequality Perceptions. The presentation begins at approximately 3:40:00 and is in German.

Inequality Perceptions Within Networks

NetPLACE seminar with Daniel Mayerhoffer on network-based perceptions of overall, gender and racial inequality.

Selected media appearances

Stepstone · interviewAb wann ist man reich?Interview on income, wealth and why subjective ideas of “being rich” differ from distributional statistics.

In der Wirtschaft · podcast · episode 61Wahrnehmung ökonomischer UngleichheitConversation with Daniel Mayerhoffer on social sampling, homophily, inequality perceptions and agent-based modelling.

Böckler Impuls · research coverageUnterschätzter ReichtumCoverage of How Wealthy Are the Rich? and the measurement of top-tail wealth in Germany.

Momentum Institut · Paper der WocheHow Wealthy Are the Rich?The paper featured in Momentum Institut's research selection on distribution.

Münchener Merkur · coverageAb welchem Gehalt gilt man als reich?Article discussing income, wealth and the middle-class bias, drawing on the Stepstone interview.

Handelsblatt · interview / quoteGehalt: Zählen Sie zu den Top-Verdienern?On income thresholds at the top and systematic misperceptions of one's relative economic position.

Tagesspiegel · interview / quoteGehälter unter der LupeOn high incomes, wealth versus income and the tendency to locate oneself in the middle class.

RTL Aktuell · video featureGeld regiert die WeltFeature on super-rich individuals, inequality and political influence.

MAKROSKOP · related research coverageEin neuer Werkzeugkasten gegen die InflationCommentary by Leonhard Ipsen connected to the joint research agenda on distributional inflation exposure.

Arbeiterkammer Wien · public essayEssaypreis “Überreichtum”Recognition award for the essay Fehlwahrnehmungen von Überreichtum with Daniel Mayerhoffer and Daria Tisch.

Simulations & replication code

Evolutionary Learning in Industrial Dynamics · project page →Evolutionary Learning in Industrial Dynamics · GitHub →Social Comparisons and Inequality Perception · project page →Inequality Perception · replication code on GitHub →

Helpful links

Complexity Explorer →Copyright-free Material on Evolutionary Economics →Data Is Plural →Encyclopedia on Red Vienna →Exploring Economics →Heterodox Economics Newsletter →History of Economic Thought Website →NetPLACE Seminar Series →