Blog Posts

In this post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Enobong (Anna) Branch and her co-author Caroline Hanley explore themes from their recently published book, Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream.

In this post, Janet Gornick and Branko Milanovic discuss the results of their study, "In Search of the Roots of American Inequality Exceptionalism: An Analysis Based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Data,” an examination of what underlies the high level of income inequality in the U.S.

In this post, Stone Center research assistant Joseph van der Naald discusses the chapter of the recently published "Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth" that he co-authored with Sarah Bruch and Janet Gornick.

In this post, Stone Center Scholar Leslie McCall reflects on a recent panel, Building Political Alliances Across Race and Class, hosted by the Stone Center and the Graduate Center.

This text by Paul Krugman was originally presented as the spring Seminar in Applied Economics at the Graduate Center.

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.