Benjamin Tippet

Benjamin Tippet is a Lecturer in Development Economics at the Department of International Development, King's College London, within the School of Global Affairs. He serves as a council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and committee member of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society. His research focuses on wealth and income inequality, global climate action, labor bargaining power, housing cycles, and fiscal policies. He leads a British Academy-funded project analyzing UK wealth concentration through The Sunday Times Rich List archives.

His expertise includes quantitative methods like causal identification, macro-econometrics, and agent-based modeling. Key research areas include the political economy of growth models, global capitalism's structural hierarchies, and the interplay between wealth taxation and inequality. He contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to inequality reduction and climate action.

Recent work highlights include dynamic analysis of UK wealth taxes, EU excess profit taxation, and vulnerability-climate action linkages. He collaborates with institutions like PEGFA and Greenpeace on policy-oriented research. Teaching focuses on macroeconomics for development and inequality studies. Current projects address global care work migration and housing system impacts on economic growth.