In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Alexander Hertel-Fernandez analyzes the history of the U.S. labor movement. The text was originally published as a book chapter in The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power.
In this post, Miles Corak explains how he came to write the introductory essay to a new edition of The Great Gatsby, now available from Century Press.
In this commentary, originally posted on VoxEU, Nishant Yonzan, Branko Milanovic, Salvatore Morelli, and Janet Gornick analyze when and why household survey data and tax data diverge at the top of the income distribution.
In this commentary, Ive Marx of the University of Antwerp and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Brian Nolan of the University of Oxford introduce a special issue of the Journal of European Social Policy focused on social policy and wealth.
In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Data Blog, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Maria Ana Lugo and her coauthors discuss a roadmap for governments seeking to design and adopt a national measure of multidimensional poverty.
In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.
In this commentary, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Bennett Callaghan explains why discussing the existence of inequality isn’t enough to change public opinion, and can even backfire.
In this commentary, Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Jaquelyn Jahn, a social epidemiologist who focuses on health equity, discusses ways to prevent more illness and deaths in jails and prisons.
In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Let’s Talk Development blog, Pinelopi Goldberg of Yale University discusses why reducing inequality may be essential for growth.
In this commentary, Professor Leslie McCall discusses the Stone Center’s recent Conference on Coalitional Democracy.