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Europe is widely perceived as losing ground to both the United States and China. But is it really? Paul Krugman challenges conventional assumptions about Europe's economic performance in his James Martin Memorial Lecture, delivered at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.

Part III of Stone Center Director Janet Gornick's keynote presentation at the 2026 Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality at Nuffield College, Oxford. Part II covers LIS's recent history and the world beyond.

Part II of Stone Center Director Janet Gornick's keynote presentation at the 2026 Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality at Nuffield College, Oxford. Part II covers LIS's history from 1990 to 2026.

Part I of Stone Center Director Janet Gornick's keynote presentation at the 2026 Atkinson Conference on Economic and Social Inequality at Nuffield College, Oxford. Part I covers LIS's history from 1983 to 1989.

Paul Krugman gave this talk on economic size and economic power during the second day of the European Central Bank's annual research conference.

Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic discusses the recent update of his All the Ginis (ATG) dataset, which now covers the period from 1950 to 2024 and includes 6,762 Ginis from 183 countries or territories. He also explains the continuing challenges in improving the production and collection of data on national income inequalities, and gives a warning about technological change.

The Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality is seeking applicants for a ninth cohort of postdoctoral scholars. These full-time, two-year positions will begin in August 2026.

The Stone Center awarded funding to three CUNY Graduate Center students and two Stone Center postdoctoral scholars to attend the LIS Introductory Summer Workshop from June 29 through July 3 in Luxembourg.

Stone Center Senior Scholars, Affiliated Scholars, and Postdoctoral Scholars presented their research at the World Inequality Conference at the Paris School of Economics in June.

Part III of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, considers the U.S. healthcare system from an international perspective and concludes by looking at the future. What kind of system is workable in the U.S.? How has the political economy of U.S. healthcare reform changed? And what is a possible path forward?