Blog Posts

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman looks at U.S.-EU divergence in the technology sector, and the role of geographic clusters.

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman reintroduces his Substack newsletter. He also discusses parallels between current and past efforts "to bring a business sensibility" to the federal budget, with the goal of eliminating inefficiency. 

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman discusses how tariffs might affect international capital flows and the U.S. economy.

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman discusses how the U.S. economy achieved disinflation without a recession, and what that means for important policy questions.

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Branko Milanovic examines the effects of Covid-19 on China, the U.S., and India, and the return to “normalcy.”

In this post, former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar Bilyana Petrova explains the recently published paper she coauthored with Marco Ranaldi, also a former Stone Center postdoctoral scholar.

In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Guido Alfani reflects on the increasing influence of the super-rich in U.S. politics, and the risk this poses to democratic institutions and equality of access to the political process.

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur Kennickell describes changes in the levels of household income across the distribution from 1989 to 2022 in this blog post, the final in a three-part series.

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur Kennickell describes changes in the levels of household wealth across the distribution from 1989 to 2022 in this blog post, the second in a three-part series.

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Arthur Kennickell analyses the cross-sectional patterns of change in household wealth and income from 1989 to 2022 in this blog post, the first in a new series.