Center News

We are proud to announce that the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality has openings for a third cohort of postdoctoral scholars.

Bennett Callaghan and Jaquelyn Jahn will join the Stone Center in September 2020.

His three-year honorary appointment will help to strengthen ties between the Stone Center and LSE’s International Inequalities Institute.

Bilyana Petrova and Marco Ranaldi will join the Stone Center in September 2019.

Janet Gornick, Chuck Collins, and Sam Pizzigati engage in a discussion on addressing income inequality.

At a Graduate Center event, Paul Krugman and Former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen discuss the origins of the 2008 financial crisis and new concerns about U.S. economic health.

The Stone Center has established a new postdoctoral program that will support two scholars beginning in the 2019–2020 academic year and two beginning in the 2020–2021 year.

The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center to launch a new postdoctoral scholars program.

The week-long workshop "Inequality by the Numbers” took a broad approach to the study of socio-economic inequalities, covering disparities in income, wealth, education, social mobility, and happiness.

Salvatore Morelli, an Oxford-trained economist and inequality scholar, joined the Stone Center in 2017 to lead the GC Wealth Project.