• Cross-National Inequality Data and Research, 1983–2026: The View from Inside LIS, Part III

    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.

  • Cross-National Inequality Data and Research, 1983–2026: The View from Inside LIS, Part II

    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.

  • Cross-National Inequality Data and Research, 1983–2026: The View from Inside LIS, Part I

    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.

  • Curing U.S. Healthcare, Part III: Paul Krugman

    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?

  • Curing U.S. Healthcare, Part II: Paul Krugman

    Part II of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, discusses U.S. health care on the eve of the second Trump administration, 80 years of U.S. health politics, the Obamacare story, and the new assault on healthcare.

  • Curing U.S. Healthcare, Part I: Paul Krugman

    Part I of Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman’s three-part series on the U.S. healthcare system, originally posted in his Substack newsletter, discusses why markets can’t be trusted to deliver healthcare, routes to universal healthcare, and what works.

  • Excerpt from “The Great Global Transformation” by Branko Milanovic

    An excerpt from Branko Milanovic's book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World. The book examines how the greatest changes in global incomes — the creation of a new upper class in China, and the decline of the middle class in the U.S. — since the Industrial Revolution are likely to influence the global economy in the next century.

  • Class Background Matters for Career Progression — in Academia and Beyond

    Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from U.S. Academia."

  • The Illusion of “Degrowth” in a Poor and Unequal World

    An excerpt from Branko Milanovic's latest book, The World Under Capitalism: Observations on Economics Politics, History, and Culture, a 2025 collection of his essays from the last decade.

  • New Capitalism in America, Part III: Branko Milanovic

    Why is capital so concentrated and why do so few have it? Stone Center Senior Scholar and GC CUNY Research Professor Branko Milanovic discusses capital income and how it functions under new capitalism in this final post of his three-part series.