Last Friday, we launched our interactive wealth simulator for Germany, which we developed together with a group of researchers led by Timm Bönke and Charlotte Bartels from DIW Berlin.

The simulator was presented at a major event and discussed by leading inequality researcher Branko Milanovic, Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection Chief Economist Elga Bartsch, CDU Germany politician Mario Czaja, former Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) leader Norbert Walter-Borjans and former Left Party MP Fabio de Masi, among others.

We have asked Branko Milanovic why understanding wealth inequality is so important - and what he takes away from the wealth simulator. The interview can be found here.