His work focuses on different aspects of the political economy of inequality and redistribution. He received an MA from the Juan March Institute, Madrid, and a D.Phil. at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He has paid particular attention to the territorial dimension of distributive conflicts, trying to understand why some political unions redistributive more than others around the world. A second line of work focuses on the origins of the fiscal capacity of the state and its implications for distributive politics today. His most recent books are The Political Geography of Inequality (2012) and the collaborative volume The Politics of Advanced Capitalism (2015), were both published by Cambridge University Press. Currently, he is finishing a book on the relationship between economic and political inequality.