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Max Roser and Stefan Thewissen

Max Roser, an economist, is the founder and project director of Our World in Data, a web publication that shows how global living conditions are changing. It is based at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Roser is also a senior fellow with the school’s Institute of New Economic Thinking. Find him on Twitter: @maxcroser

Stefan Thewissen is a postdoctoral research officer with the Institute of New Economic Thinking. He is affiliated with the Department of Social Policy and Intervention and an associate member of Nuffield College

Latest articles by Max Roser and Stefan Thewissen

The Big Idea
The US lags far behind its peers on “inclusive” economic growthThe US lags far behind its peers on “inclusive” economic growth
The Big Idea

Our data shows that inequality isn’t an inevitable byproduct of globalization and technological change.

By Max Roser and Stefan Thewissen

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